Re:
> Does anyone out there use the Whitman College Mail Systems(Ie HPMAIL)???  I
> have expired accounts everywhere...(this happened last year, when we went to
> 00, but the program seemed to "fix" itself.) Ie; I had expired accounts last
> year, but then the next day it was fine.. I tried to change the expiration
> date, but no go.. Any ideas?(besides the obvious??)

Assuming it's a problem in the mail program, then the best bet is to
try to get a new version.  You didn't mention what version
you have...that info might be of use to people familiar with the
program.

If you can't find any solutions that way, then you might want to "cheat",
by making HPMAIL (?) think the date is back in the year 2000:

<plug> look at HourGlass for MPE,
http://www.allegro.com/products/hourglass/hp3000/index.html,
which would allow you to setup a system-wide rule like:

@, @.@ @   HPMAIL.PUB.WHITMAN @ ABSOLUTE 2000-12-31 12:00

which means: any jobname, any user.account, any group, running
HPMAIL.PUB.WHITMAN from any ldev will always get the date/time
2000-12-31 12:00

or, you could use a relative time so that if they send
several messages from the same run of HPMAIL, the messages
would have different timestamps:
  RELATIVE 2000-01-02 12:00
(this would be a problem if they stayed *in* the program for more
than a year :)

</plug>

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