Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

3828.0. "Distribution List not being selected." by VAXRIO::ABREU () Fri Jan 28 1994 12:34

    Hi,
    
       I have a customer who isn't able to select a Distribution List .. 
    He receives no error but when the operation ends the first distribution
    list is still the one selected despite of his selection had been other
    distribution list.
    
    This happen with MDL option and with the users DL option too. I checked and
    the forms called are DLSYS (in the case of MDL option) and DL (DL 
    option) ... Following the trace, I realized that in the "CHECK_DL"
    option there are three lines :
    
    ;;~~CHECK_DL~~;;           { in the DLSYS form named data }
    
    get $distfolder = oa$_dlsys_folder \
    mail dist_del $distname
    if oa$status == 0 then oa$msg_purge \\ XOP "~~find_first_sysdl~~"
     
    The correct distribution list is not selected because OA$STATUS is 
    always 0 ... The same happens with the DL form  ... I customized 
    this form taking this line out and it worked .. but I can't understand 
    why this happens .. I have other customers with the same version 
    (3.0 Brazilian) and they don't have this problem.  
    
    Any ideas of what can be causing this wrong status ?
    
    thks ... Marcia

    Hi,
    
    Does the user by any chance have a Private Distribution List with the
    same name as a System Distribution List? This would cause the symptom
    you are seeing.
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart

    Hi Stuart ,
    
        I made a test in the Manager account for example and I didn't have
    any private DL ... I created one .. and the same happened .. The
    distribution list have different names for sure. It's true that the
    names of the system lists are similar but we don't have how to avoid it
    because the name is composed by the departemnt , followed by numbers.
    
    Anyway , Do you see any problems in not test the status after the "mail
    dist_sel" function ? Do you think this similar names can be the cause
    of the problem?  
    
       Thanks.. Marcia

    Hi,
    
    I looked at the code for the PFR and found that we have fixed a problem
    where the function MAIL DIST_SEL sets OA$STATUS to 0 if it has selected
    a System Distribution List. So I agree with your temporary workround of
    removing the test of oa$status.
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart