Problems with "Email list and/or newsgroup" Names or Registering a New User

Question:

I have created a new folder and given it an Email/Newgroup List name, yet when I go back and edit the folder Web Crossing has tacked on a number.

Example: "Test", became "Test2" or "Test3"

Or I am trying to register a new user, and Web Crossing is refusing.

Answer:

Usually this is because you already have a folder somewhere with an identical Email/Newsgroup name (see code snippet below).

However it can also mean that you have either a User Name or User Access Group with that same name.

Users, user groups, and email/Newgroup names are all checked when a new user/email/newsgroup name is assigned, because they can all be the recipient of emails (email to a newsgroup is like email to an email list). So all the possible destinations for email have to have unique names.

Here is a code snippet that will allow you to walk your database and print out Folder-to-"Email/newsgroup Name" Mappings. Handy when trying to figure out where a newsgroup name is assigned to a folder. Both macros below are required. After installed, and your cache reset, call "checkForNewsgroups".

Example:

%% macro checkNewGroupsLoop %%
        %% setPath( _folder ) %%
        %% if pathNewsgroup %%
		%% set newsLocations newsLocations & location & " " %%
	  %% endif %%
        %% set _lists pathSelect("type=f") & " end " & _lists %%
        %% set _folder _lists.split %%
        %% while _folder != "end" %%
	  %% if _folder %%
		%% use checkNewGroupsLoop %%
	%% endif %%
                %% set _folder _lists.split %%
        %% endwhile %%
%% endmacro %%

%% macro checkForNewsgroups %%
%% set _folder "/" %%
%% use checkNewGroupsLoop %%
%% set temp newsLocations %%
%% while temp %%
%% setPath (temp.split) %%
%% set path.tempNewsSortKey pathNewsgroup %%
%% endwhile %%
%% set newsLocations newsLocations.trim.pathSort("path.tempNewsSortKey") %%
%% while newsLocations %%
%% setPath (newsLocations.split) %%
%% pathTitle
%% - %% pathNewsgroup %%

%% set path.tempNewsSortKey "" %%
%% endwhile %%
%% endmacro %%