While I am not generally fond of adding hacks for specific mailers, a good
compromise for the UUENCODE situation below might be to stop processing
Majordomo commands if 'N' or more bogus commands are encountered. Not sure
if it should be 'N' total, or in-a-row. A message could be appended
instructing users in the proper use of "end" in their command blocks.
What's the verdict? (it's not a feature in 1.93; haven't checked 1.94
yet...)
--bill
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From: Williamson, Jim M
To: Houle, Bill at MS Mail
Subject: FW: Majordomo results
Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 8:10AM
Here are the results of an "unsubscribe" from MSMail. It worked, but the
default attachment the gateway adds created some interesting overhead. How
hard to update MD to ignore it?
<JMW>
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From: majordomo
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 8:00 AM
To: jimw
Subject: Majordomo results
--
>>>> unsubscribe webaholics Jennifer.Taylor@SanDiegoCA.ncr.com
Succeeded.
>>>>
>>>> The following binary file has been uuencoded to ensure successful
**** Command 'the' not recognized.
>>>> transmission. Use UUDECODE to extract.
**** Command 'transmission.' not recognized.
>>>>
>>>> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
**** Command 'begin' not recognized.
>>>> M>)\^(BP.`0:0"``$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y`0```````#H``$(@`<`
**** Command 'm>)\^(bp.`0:0"``$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````y`0```````' not
recognized.
>>>> M&````$E032Y-:6-R;W-O9G0@36%I;"Y.;W1E`#$(`0V`!``"`````@`"``$$
**** Command 'm&````$e032y-:6-r;w-o9g0@36%i;"y.;w1e`' not recognized.
>>>> M@`$``0````````$%@`,`#@```,P'"@`(``<`.P`H``(`40$!((`#``X```#,
**** Command 'm@`$``0````````$%@`,`' not recognized.
>>>> M!PH`"``'`#D`.P`"`&(!`0F``0`A````030P1$4Y.3!%,#(P1#`Q,3@W,4,P
**** Command 'm!ph`"``'`' not recognized.
>>>> M,$%!,#!"0T5"-S4`&@<!`Y`&`*P!```0````"P`C```````#`"8```````L`
**** Command 'm,$%!,' not recognized.
>>>> M*0```````P`V``````!``#D`(&RF5"FUNP$>`'```0````$``````````@%Q
**** Command 'm*0```````p`v``````!``' not recognized.
>>>> M``$````6`````;NU*51TD.D-JR#@$="''`"J`+SK=0```P`&$`69V"T#``<0
**** Command 'm``$````6`````;nu*51td.d-jr' not recognized.
>>>> M-````!X`"!`!````-0```%5.4U5"4T-224)%5T5"04A/3$E#4TI%3DY)1D52
**** Command 'm-````!x`"!`!````-0```%5.4u5"4t-224)%5t5"04a/3$e' not
recognized.
>>>> M5$%93$]20%-!3D1)14=/0T%.0U)#3TT``````@$)$`$```"M````J0````L!
**** Command 'm5$%93$]20%-!3d1)14=/0t%.0u)' not recognized.
>>>> M``!,6D9UJ3]#=_\`"@$/`A4"J`7K`H,`4`+R"0(`8V@*P'-E=#(W!@`&PP*#
**** Command 'm``!,6d9uj3]' not recognized.
>>>> M,@/%`@!P<D)Q$>)S=&5M`H,S]P+D!Q,"@'T*@`C/"=D"@`<*@0VQ"V!N9S$P
**** Command 'm,@/%`@!p<d)q$>)s=&5m`h,s]p+d!q,"@'t*@`c/"=d"@`<*@0vq"v!n9s$p'
not recognized.
>>>> M,T\44`L*%%$+\2!U`(!U`F($\F)E('=E8J1A:`;P:6,$($H)\(4#`&8$D"Y4
**** Command 'm,t\44`l*%%$+\2!u`(!u`f($\f)e('=e8j1a:`;p:6,$($h)\(4' not
recognized.
>>>> M87D5H0I`!A%$")!G;T-!U"YN!0`N!:!M"H45,0(`':`````#`!`0``````,`
**** Command 'm87d5h0i`!a%$")!g;t-!u"yn!0`n!:!m"h45,0(`':`````' not
recognized.
>>>> M$1``````0``',,"L>A@IM;L!0``(,,"L>A@IM;L!'@`]``$````!````````
**** Command 'm$1``````0``',,"l>a@im;l!0``(,,"l>a@im;l!'@`]``$````!````````'
not recognized.
>>>> #`(Y<
>>>> `
**** Command '`' not recognized.
>>>> end
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