Subj : Re: listserv.js
To : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Dec 09 2014 08:16 am
-=> On 12-08-14 22:59, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
>
> The listserv is on my system. He just asked me to set one up for him.
> Everything in the configuration is the same as the original one I've been
> running for years and even that one will not pass any response when either
> subscribing or unsubscribing as well.
>
> DM> How are they unsubscribing exactly - using the message subject?
>
> Yes, that is activated.
>
> This is what I get when using "help" on the subject line:
>
> TequilaMockingbird Online ListServ 1.39 Response:
>
> Available commands:
> lists
> subscribe [address]
> unsubscribe [address]
> help
> end
>
> This is what I get when "lists" on the subject line:
>
> TequilaMockingbird Online ListServ 1.39 Response:
>
> List of lists:
> NJBC New Jersey Boxer Club
> SBI Superstition Boxers Information
> !Bad command: This
> Available commands:
> lists
> subscribe [address]
> unsubscribe [address]
> help
> end
>
> Why would it show a !Bad Command: This ??
DM> What was in the messaghge body? The message body is processed as a
DM> sequence of commands as well, so you could have a command in the
DM> subject and more commands in the message body. My guess is that your
DM> message body contained "This". If you don't want to include commands in
DM> the message body, just leave it blank or put a tear line (---). Nothing
DM> after the tear line should be processed.
There was nothing in the body at all. Only thing I can think of is the
possibility of the MIME being interpreted as "Then" even if using ---
I was right... here is the first part of the message that appears in the
message that is posted even though the body is blank with the tearline <--->
