ES - Re: Email problem

[Sluggy]

Pug Bainter wrote:
 
> Duke, Wes (WDuke at healthaxis.com) said something that sounded like:
> > I found out what my problem was. I had included the word 'help' in the
> > subject line of my original email and it would appear that the filters would
> > not let this through.
 
> This unfortunately is a nature of majordomo. It looks for it's commands
> in the first 10 lines of the message, including the subject. It assumes
> these are users trying to get the admin to do something.

Well, that makes more sense. :)

Does Majordomo look only at the beginning of the line for command words?

For example, I can see where:

"HELP! I lost my sheep!"

could be interpretted as a command, but would:

"I need help."

be a command?

Thanks!!

Sluggy!

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