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Subject: Re: Outlook2000 and approval
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:39:14 -0500
To: Virtual Joe <jduche @ creighton . edu>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <Pine.GHP.4.20.0005181227430.5466-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu>

One thing that I can see is that the message has two "From:" and "Date:"
lines, which the first ones are followed by a blank line.  Blank lines
signify the end of the headers and the beginning of the message.  Could 
this be your culprit?

Dan Liston

Virtual Joe wrote:
> 
> We are having a very odd problem when users use Outlook2000. The user
> forwards the "bounce for approval" message back to the list, puts the
> correct "Approved: password" command in and edits according to
> instructions and sends the message. (This all works fine in Outlook98 and
> all the other mailers our people use. We have over 400 lists here, so I
> have talked lots of folks through this and know how to make it work.)
> 
> Here's our problem: The headers are not getting through majordomo
> correctly. This is obviously due to outlook2000. It seems to be
> misinterpreting the carriage returns or something because it cuts the
> headers off. Majordomo still gets the precedence and subject correct
> however. (p.s. we've set Outlook2000 to text/plain and even toyed with
> setting the charset from iso-8859-1 to us-ascii and back again.)
> 
> Here is a message sent out to a list (approved with Outlook2000) that was
> successfully approved by majordomo:
> 
> ===================[ begin message ]========================
> 
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:15:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: test-owner@creighton.edu
> 
> JAA21751
>         for <test@pigeon.creighton.edu>; Thu, 18 May 2000 09:37:34 -0500
> (CDT)
> Received: from bluejay.creighton.edu (bluejay.creighton.edu
> [147.134.2.20])
>         by mailjay.creighton.edu (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id
> JAA24433
>         for <test@creighton.edu>; Thu, 18 May 2000 09:37:33 -0500 (CDT)
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:37:32 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Virtual Joe <jduche@creighton.edu>
> To: test@creighton.edu
> Subject: [the test list] a test message
> Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.20.0005180936190.12852-100000@bluejay.creighton.edu>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Sender: test-owner@creighton.edu
> Precedence: bulk
> Reply-To: test
> 
> This is a test message to the list "test".
> 
> ===================[ end message ]========================
> 
> Notice that the very first line ("JAA21751") is actually a portion of one
> of the "Received" headers line that majordomo was supposed to strip out.
> Also note that the Subject has been successfully changed.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem yet? We will continue to poke at Outlook2000
> and hopefully I will soon have an answer to share.
> 
> TIA...
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>    Joe Ducharme                    jduche@creighton.edu
>    Creighton University            Omaha, NE USA  68178
>   <<Virtual Joe      http://www.creighton.edu/~jduche/>>
>   "Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana."
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=


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