From: Charlie Summers [mailto:charlie@lofcom.com] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 4:12 PM
Am I the _only_ person who read the .example files, and so know that the X-Command line may be placed in the body if one incorporates the recipe in .examples/rc.local.r00? This eliminates _all_ discussion about mail clients, since it will work perfectly with _any_ client.
Actually no. Depending on the configuration, MS Outlook will wrap longer X-Command lines, whereupon Smartlist will not process them properly. One will recieve diagnostic headers such as: "X-Diagnostic: Suspicious X-Command Format". We've been forced to use other mail clients to send X-Commands. Now you may feel that using broken MS mail clients is foolish, but ... that's what's on the machines of the people that need to do the list maintenance, so ... --Merrick Munday