Subj : Re: listserv.js
To   : Bill McGarrity
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Dec 09 2014 10:25 pm

  Re: Re: listserv.js
  By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on 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
 >  DM> in the message body, just leave it blank or put a tear line (---).
 >  DM> Nothing 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
 > <--->
 >
 > [quote]
 >
 > This is a multipart message in MIME format.
 >
 > ------=_NextPart_000_013B_01D01314.288E9150
 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 >         boundary="----=_NextPart_001_013C_01D01314.288E9150"
 >
 >
 > ------=_NextPart_001_013C_01D01314.288E9150
 > Content-Type: text/plain;
 >         charset="us-ascii"
 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 >
 > [end quote]
 >
 >
 > Notice the "This" as the first word.  So the MIME is causing issues...
 >
 > Thanks for your help...

Ah, that's a good clue. Try getting the latest listserver.js from 
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/exec/listserver.js and 
set BodyCommand=false in your ctrl/listserver.ini file. This will allow command 
*only* in the subject (assuming SubjCommand=true) and thus ignore any 
MIME-encoded body text in control messages.

Let me know how that works for ya,

                                            digital man

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