Personally, I think list requests should not be processed in the body of the mail but, rather, in the email address.
Join list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. As for what M$ is doing - who really knows. AOL, MSN and all the big ISPs do things to email that you have no control over. Howie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul smith)> To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: [iMS] Hotmail Problems > I'm using Microset's FusionMail 2 List Manager template to process list > commands sent in the body of messages. I've seen erratic behavior from one > identical try to the next. > > We recently saw a case where M$'s Hotmail processed a List Manager REPLY TO > the List Owner and inserted text WITHIN THE INTERIOR OF THE BODY of the > normal reply the List Manager sends, as illustrated in the following > reply. In the following "List Manager" is the end of the message the List > Manager normally sends to the List Owner. The 2 lines above it are M$'s idea. > > This try at a list command failed, but the very next try succeeded a few > minutes later, with exactly the same command, with a normal reply from the > List Manager. > > This leads me to wonder if M$ is inserting text like this in messages SENT > TO the List Manager commands to process, which then causes that command to > fail. > > Anyone seen anything like this before? > > Is it better practice to put commands in the Subject instead of the Body? > > best, paul > > ========================= > Dear list owner, > > As you requested, the following members have left > the List TestList > > > online > try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > List manager > ===================== > ==^======================================================= This list server is Powered by iMS "The Swiss Army Knife of Mail Servers" -------------------------------------- To leave this list please complete the form at http://www.coolfusion.com/iMSSupport.cfm Need an iMS Developer license? Sign up for a free license here: http://www.coolfusion.com/iMSDevelopers.cfm List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/infusion-email%40eoscape.com/ Note: You are subscribed as [email protected] ==^=======================================================
