> http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-20000922-DM01.htm

What on earth did you find in there that's relevant to your questions?

> This  trailer  feature  for  the  iMail  list  server is practically
> useless  --  not  being  able  to  include  it  at the bottom of all
> messages  sent to local accounts makes NO sense at all

Did  you  mean "not being able to NOT include it"? I have to say, this
missing  advanced  feature  is  also missing from the majority of list
managers out there, so it makes its own kind of sense. Or did you mean
something  else, like the global trailer.txt feature (which isn't part
of  IMAILSRV)--this  is, I agree, a strange implementation, but not in
the same realm.

> and  if  users are using HTML formatting (99% of our users do!), the
> trailer  won't  appear.

As Rod said, good citizens use plain-text for lists, which generate an
explosive  (no  pun intended) amount of traffic and so must be treated
especially delicately. If you can't convince them by moderator message
alone,    convince    them    by    rejecting   messages   that   have
'multipart-alternative'  in  the headers, etc. IMAILSRV is part of the
MTA  part of IMail, which does not speak HTML. True, it would be great
if  it  did  do this kind of tag-stripping thing on its own, but it is
basically a "freebie" thrown in alongside more maintained modules.

> What  can  be  done to REALLY add a trailer, without all these silly
> problems?  This  should  have been fixed SO long ago... a trailer on
> list  messages  should  be  a  TRAILER under all circumstances. What
> gives?

To  do  this would require parsing the HTML to determine the insertion
point.  It  could  be  done using any good text-manipulation language,
even VBScript.

> is there ANY way to secure the email addresses of list members?

This  is  a  perplexing,  seemingly untested allegation you're making.
You're  not  correct  in  saying  that the LIST command is irrevocably
enabled,  although  the  docs  are misleading on this point, making it
seem like a loophole where there isn't one.

-Sandy


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