Vicki,
I can read a lot of frustration in these recent posts. I wish I could
be more help, but I'm not a Eudora user, so I can't give any specifics.
I will, however, share my prognostication on what's happening and why:
In order for majordomo to see and remove the Approved: header, it needs to
be in the headers, not in the body of the message. The problem stems from
the fact(?) that Eudora does not allow you to edit the headers directly,
but only gives you access to the 'value' portion of specific headers, and
the body of the message. The standard-required blank line between the
headers and the body is inserted by Eudora.
In the docs, it recommends placing the Approved: line as the first line of
the body, then repeating at least the To:, From:, and Subject: lines
immediately following that, or preferrably all the headers from the
original message, then inserting a blank line and the text of the message.
Essentially what this accomplishes is creating a complete second message
within the body of the first message. So it ends up going out like this:
Blank line
Eudora provided headers
blank line
Approved: line
/other valid headers you copy or build/
blank line
Body of message
According to my understanding of mail standards, a message begins with a
blank line, followed by a series of recognizable headers, followed by
another blank line, followed by text. Sendmail will see this as two
messages. The headers that Eudora provides will eventually be thrown away
as a message with no text, and the Approved: line will be seen in the
packet of valid headers which will be associated with the body of text
below it.
DISCLAIMER: Again, I'm writing this as my speculation only, based on
little more than a newbie's experience with the major and sendmail. I
don't know if this clarifies or confuses the issue, but I contribute it in
the hope that It will stimulate feedback that will help us all
understand the underlying process that forces us into such contrivances.
If the approved: line went out to the list, then it was obviously seen by
resend, yet not stripped out. (Or does resend pass on everything
originating from the moderator?) I would tend to agree with you that this
is a bug. If the Approved: message is detected whether it is in the header
or the body of the message, yet it is only stripped if it's in the header,
it leads to problems and contrived procedures. If the detection and
stripping were done in the same block of code, then it would be easier to
insure that one action would not happen without the other, and if the
Approved: line were misplaced, it would simply bounce again to the
moderator, and not be sent to the list.
And the expedient solution:
The 'approve' script works nicely with pine. Have you got an old 386SX or
better lying around? Linux is quite usable on a 386SX-20 in character
mode. If you don't already have one, I'll send you a Linux CD complete
with perl and pine, and you can set up a more convenient environment. I
trust you'll soon find more and more that's friendlier in Linux than
windows, and you'll eventually decide to install it on your more
state-of-the-art hardware.
--
Rick Green
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