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From: Elsi <>
Subject: Re: [LO] What is this?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:07:46 -0500
References: <1a2.23216dd8.2db751d7@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <001901c42789$bdb253c0$a0bd3e44@patt28ojvi7vmt>


At 05:16 AM 4/21/2004 -0500, Pat M wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [LO] What is this?
>
>
> > In a message dated 4/20/2004 8:56:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > writes:
> > Normally, someone answers my question before I figure out how to ask it,
>but
> > this is something I haven't seen before and I just want to know what it is
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pat
> > ------
> > Pat-
> >
> > I have no actual clue as to what this is but if I were to see something
>like
> > this:
> >
> > X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.0
> > X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38
> > X-Diagnostic: Found on the reject list
> > X-Diagnostic: 15 32760
> >
> > X-Envelope-To: ALLAUDER-L-request
> >
> > ....I think I'd probably guess that Andrew is mucking about and clean
> > something up and scratch my head and go on about my business. <g>
> >
> > Joan
> >
>
>Thanks, Joan. I'd decided that was what it was, but it's still eerie -
>nothing like having a ghost drop in to liven things up <g>


Pat -- When I was SC for ALGenWeb, I created some MailMerge forms to
subscribe to each & every county mailing list. See the form at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/rwsub.html Occasionally, when this form
is used, the MailMerge program picks up the RootsWeb address
() instead of the one entered by the visitor. No one
can explain why it happens or when, but the SmartList program has a filter
to prevent the RootsWeb server from getting subscribed to any lists, which
is why you get the "found on the reject list" error message.

You can tell if this is from my MailMerge form by looking for the
"X-mail-agent" header in the e-mail. See it? So -- since it's there in
the header, you can tell it came from the form.

Now -- the visitor's own e-mail address *is* in the request, it's just that
for some reason, SmartList didn't pick it up from the e-mail generated by
MailMerge. See the headers here for one that got messed up for one of my
lists:

From:
Reply-to:
Subject: .
X-mail-agent: mailmerge v1.0
X-Diagnostic: Found on the reject list
X-Diagnostic: 15 32760

X-Envelope-To: ALCLEBUR-L-request


See the "From:" header? If you want to be nice, just use your list owner
tool page & subscribe that person to the list.

Regards,
Elsi

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