Regarding stripped mail headers and lost return address information from
SERIALST mail, Mario Rups sends the following information for a setting
a DUALHR, which should be useful to those who currently receive mail with
stripped out headers. Thanks, Mario! -- Birdie
p.s. But I still think it's good practice to sign email messages!
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>I have received some notices and complaints that some of our subscribers'
>mailing systems strip out mail headers (i.e., return address info.) before
...
>Thanks.
>
> Birdie MacLennan bmaclenn@uvmvm.bitnet
Sorry -- I'm on digest, so this point may well already have been made over
and over already, but: my system also blinds me by stripping off the
headers, which is especially problematic for me, as I am also a listOWNER.
However -- since you are using version 1.7f or later of listserv,
the individual listmember can SET SERIALST DUALHDR, which will
add the name of the individual poster.
E.g., from lstown-l; the "--- Information from the mail header" part is
what is added, the rest is what our system sees fit to leave us (I stripped
out the : after From and To myself):
>>From IN%"LSTOWN-L%SEARN.BITNET@SEGATE.SUNET.SE" "LISTSERV list owners' forum"
18-MAY-1994 19:46:46.00
>To IN%"LSTOWN-L%SEARN.BITNET@SEGATE.SUNET.SE" "Multiple recipients of list
LSTOWN-L"
>CC:
>Subj: Query: recent NY Times article on law firm's mass posting to net
>
>---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
>Sender: LISTSERV list owners' forum <LSTOWN-L@SEARN.BITNET>
>Poster: Hugh Jarvis <ANTOWNER@UBVM.BITNET>
>Subject: Query: recent NY Times article on law firm's mass posting to net
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You might suggest that to your listmembers, as I so often suggest it to
mine (or to others in the same situation). Relatively few people seem to
know about this option.
Mario Rups, listmember, SERIALST
co-listowner, ARCANA
