List of variables for substitution in reports?

[Julian Field]

The "$UPPERCASE" is so that you can put in environment variables into 
the reports. With your $HOSTNAME problems I would suspect that your 
default shell setup doesn't set the shell HOSTNAME environment variable.

David Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>
>   
>> My sample report files each use all the available variables in each one.
>> If you need something else somewhere, let me know and I will see about
>> adding it for you.
>>
>> Sorry it's no more consistent than that.
>>     
>
> I wonder also if there is a particular consistency issue with "hostname"?
>
> The report files refer to lower-case '$hostname'.  But MailScanner.conf
> seems to contain a definition:
>    Hostname = the %org-name% ($HOSTNAME) MailScanner
>
> whose RHS has this as upper-case.  (I understand that the case of its LHS
> is irrelevant).
>
> The reports we (org-name: DurhamAcUk) have been getting over the years
> contain an empty string:
>    the DurhamAcUk () MailScanner
>
> This email thread has prompted me to check deeper.
>
> I wonder whether that peculiar "()" might be because the upper-case
> (default, I think) "$HOSTNAME" in MS.conf is not recognised.
>
> Julian: Could you check and comment upon this, please?
>
> (MS versions various over the years, but include up to 4.55.10 .)
>
>   

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