Hey.. thanks for the help.. I was having that problem also with the search
page. Ron.. thanks for the great work.. well worth my 100 bucks or so.
Bill Roemhild
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Subject: RE: [imail] Search function dead
> Since I installed the hksi templates i have had a problem with the
> search function, It goes to the search page just fine but when
> submitting it seems to take a moment and think then dumps me
> back on the
> summary page. If i click the "Perform Last Search" button it seems to
> actually search and gives me the results page. any clues??
You've probably got the exclamation point bug. See below for the
diagnosis and cure.
> Also, on another note. Is there an easy way to limit the amount of
> outgoing mails a person can send? to avoid people trying to
> use our mail
> to spam etc...
No. But they won't spam much with web messaging... it's limited to 255
chars in the to, cc, and bcc fields. It would take a patient spammer
with no life to do any serious volume with web messaging. Your bigger
worry is that they use their account to authenticate on your SMTP server
and pump large volumes through. The only way to stop that is to turn
relaying completely off, or monitor your logs and kill the spammers.
Hope this helps,
Ron
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We've been seeing this IMail bug in more and more of our users' WebMail
installations, so I'm suspecting that 6.03 is shipping with it. Anyway,
please check your systems... the symptoms are vague, but usually include
Search function failures, Mac function failures, and general JavaScript
weirdness. The bug affects stock webmail templates, too, but not as
severely, due to JavaScript differences in our system. Fix it BEFORE
your users call and complain. :)
We call it the "Exclamation Point Bug". Here's a snippet of JavaScript
from viewing the html source of an affected View Mail (msgsum.html)
page:
} else if (sButton=="!Delete"
|| sButton=="!Delete All"
|| sButton=="!Move To"
|| sButton=="!Goto Mailbox")
See those exclamation points ("!")? They shouldn't be there. The raw
code uses IMail button tags, like <!--IMAIL.DeleteButton-->, which gets
substituted from your butontxt.ini file in the IMail root directory. And
therein lies the problem.
THE DIAGNOSIS: Do a "View Source" from your browser while on either the
Read Message screen or the Message Summary screen. If you see JavaScript
similar to the above snippet, with "!" points inside of double-quotes
and button names, you're affected. (Please note that lots of JavaScript
conditional statements use "!=", which means "not-equivalent"... those
should be there.)
THE FIX: If your system is affected, find your butontxt.ini file in the
x:\imail directory, edit all the "!" marks out of it, then stop and
restart web messaging.
THE WEIRD TWIST: Some systems have the exclamation points in the
butontxt.ini file, but they're not passed to the browser. I suspect some
minor code changes on Ipswitch's part changed the behavior of the
substitution logic; perhaps they needed the "!" marks in a previous
version.
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