On 26 May 2005 at 11:03, Casellas, Josep Maria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >How can we use substitutions in the body of message in html format (for example the 
> >field NAME)?
> 
> Yes, this can be done.  The problem is that when my email program creates the encoding it sends:
> 
> At 12:33 PM +0200 5/25/05, Aplicaciones, Soporte wrote:
> ><P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&amp;NAME; &amp;*NAME; 
> >&amp;NAME &amp;*NAME;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT 
> >SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'&amp;NAME' '&amp;*NAME'
> >'&amp;NAME'</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 
> >FACE="Arial">&quot;&amp;NAME&quot; &quot;&amp;*NAME&quot; 
> >&quot;&amp;NAME&quot;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT 
> >SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">&lt;&amp;NAME&gt; &lt;&amp;*NAME&gt; &amp;*DATE; 
> >&amp;*DATE</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN>
> 
> and &amp;*NAME isn't what LISTSERV is looking for; it's looking for &*NAME.

The easiest way to solve this problem is to use LISTSERV Maestro, 
which was developed partly to solve that exact problem and make it 
easy to send mail-merge HTML/multipart messages through LISTSERV.

In the absence of Maestro, the other solution is to send DISTRIBUTE 
jobs. See the white paper "Sending MIME Messages in LISTSERV(R) 
DISTRIBUTE Jobs" at http://www.lsoft.com/resources/wp-mime-dist.pdf

If you want the DISTRIBUTE job to post to a list, see the DISTRIBUTE 
POST command that was added in LISTSERV 14.3 (the white paper 
predates this, so does not discuss it).

DISTRIBUTE jobs are not for the faint of heart. LISTSERV Maestro 
takes the headaches out of sending DISTRIBUTE jobs, and you may find 
it well worth the price.

-- 
Francoise Becker <[log in to unmask]>

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