[cvsnt] Workaround: CVSMailer with cvsnt 2.5.01.1927

[Glen Starrett]

Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team.  For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.
 
I think Bo is on holidays, so I'm posting this workaround in case anyone 
else needs it.

With CVSMailer using the current stable CVSNT build (2.5.01.1927), there 
is a minor issue with the $USER variable which causes the "from" address 
never to be filled in properly if the username has a backslash in it 
(e.g. MyDomain\UserName).  There are a couple workarounds you can use:

1)  Double up on the user file entries.  For every user definition you 
have with a \ in the name, create an identical entry without the \ in 
it, like so:

   MyDomain\UserName:"User Name <user.name at domain.com>"
   MyDomainUserName:"User Name <user.name at domain.com>"


2)  If you have primarily just 1 domain your users are in, then set that 
as your default domain in CVSNT.  That will remove the domain name from 
the user strings (unverified since my users are in 3 domains).



-- 
Glen Starrett