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">&NAME; &*NAME; > >&NAME &*NAME;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT > >SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">'&NAME' '&*NAME' > >'&NAME'</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 > >FACE="Arial">"&NAME" "&*NAME" > >"&NAME"</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT> <FONT > >SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><&NAME> <&*NAME> &*DATE; > >&*DATE</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN> > > and &*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]> Knowledge is just a click away: http://www.lsoft.com/optin.html