When I send an ADD command with a really long address, LISTSERV treats the command as two separate lines and it fails. How do I fix this?
This happens because your command has wrapped to a second line. LISTSERV treats each separate physical line of the message as a separate command line. For instance if you send QUIET ADD MYLIST someone.with.a.real.long.userid.that.wraps@hishost.com His Name your mail client or mail server will probably wrap that line, and LISTSERV will probably respond > QUIET ADD MYLIST someone.with.a.real.long.userid.that.wraps@hishost.com someone.with.a.real.long.userid.that.wraps@HISHOST.COM is not yet in the signup file. Please specify the full name of that person, as in “ADD MYLIST JOE@XYZ.EDU Joe H. Smith”. > His Name Unknown command – “HIS”. Try HELP. In order to send commands that span multiple lines, you have to use special formatting called a “continuation card”. Continuation cards can be used to split any long command into two or more 80-character cards. In that case you must insert a “//
