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Bruno Robichaud <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:24:50 -0400
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Still have error , can someone go trough everything I have there and tell me
what wrong with it?

//XYZNEWS-215 JOB ECHO=NO
// DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=gabouer ,
DBMS=YES(EMAIL=strEmail) [log in to unmask] 
//TO DD * ,
SELECT * FROM EmailTable_68
/*
//DATA DD *
To: <&*TO;>
Date: &*date;
From: XYZnews editor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: &Subject;
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Boundary="123456789123456789abcd"

--123456789123456789abcd
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

jj

--123456789123456789abcd
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html>
<head>I'm a Head</head>
<body>
<h2>Im relly the real shit</h2>
</body>
</html>

--123456789123456789abcd--

-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jacob Haller
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Mail-merge Format

>Hi, I'm very confuse, I always a problem sending a command job to listserv
>without having a probleme for exaple I'm sending this :
>
>If I send that I'm going yo have for error: Unknown command - "DBMS=YES"
>I made it work before but everytime I need to test I always have the ssame
>issues , can some one can supply me with the right format or tell me what
>wrong in my format. I'm using a DB to get my people to send they email, in
>different format (HTML , TEXT) and I want to put AOL later.THx

The problem is that this command all has to be on one line:

>DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=gabouer DBMS=YES(EMAIL=SenderAddress)
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It sounds like it is being split onto two separate lines:

>DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=gabouer

and

>DBMS=YES(EMAIL=SenderAddress) [log in to unmask]

which LISTSERV then tries to interpret as two separate commands.

You can use the 'continuation card' syntax described at the beginning 
of Chapter 6 of the Site Manager's Manual to get around this problem:

// DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE PW=xxxxxx ,
DBMS=YES(EMAIL=... etc ...

The '//' and ',' on the first line tell LISTSERV to consider the 
second line a continuation of the first.  Both the space after the 
'//' and the space before the final ',' on the first line are 
required for this to work.
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