Greg Matheson lang-sl@ms.chinmin.edu.tw wroteP:
I think I'll try taking a few of those .*$ out in the third condition and see what happens.
I'm not sure whether this will answer your question or not (since I'm not 100% clear what your specific question was), but if I understand correctly, you are thinking that Smartlist doesn't want to put short "hello" messages through to your list. Is this right?
It's not the shortness of a message [alone] that causes the "unprocessed" problem. Super-short messages will be unprocessed if 1) they have no subject, or 2) they have only non-alphabetic characters -- such as "!!!" or ";)" -- in the subject. (I've never been bugged enough to try to figure out WHY these things make Smartlist so unhappy -- I just know that they do.)
I keep a pre-written message handy to send out to individuals when this happens on my lists telling them that the list program thinks very short messages are people needing help and it sends them to me to process; then I tell them if they will simply add a subject (or use actual letters in their subject) and resend, it should go through. They then add a subject and resend and their message does go through. (Which is how I know it's not the shortness alone that matters, but the shortness and subject combined. It took me many months of saving and comparing unprocessed postings before I was able to notice the pattern they all had in common.)
Since the example you posted here had the subject "^_^......!!!" that's what the problem is in this case. If that message were given a "normal" subject, Smartlist should put it through.
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