
Dec. 7, 2005
5:35 a.m.
At 9:12 PM -0800 2005-12-06, Mark Sapiro wrote:
This is a valid subscription email, but if we strip arguments off the subject until we hit a valid command word, we'll try to process the command "subscribe to the list" which will fail and the failure will cause the valid command in the body to be skipped.
The easy way to handle that is to go ahead and try to process the
body of a message, regardless of the success or failure of the ability to process the subject line.
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