Re: How to add "Your are subscribed as ..." in the email body

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:03:02PM -0800, Cedant Web Hosting wrote:
>          Is it possible to make the footer of the email list the person 
> that the email was sent to.  For example at the bottom of the email body, 
> it would be able to say "You are subscribed as $user@$somedomain.com where 
> it would put the users actual email address that received that letter.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Thomas
> 

For that to be possible, the list server would have to send a
separate message to each subscriber individually.  Smartlist
doesn't do that.  If you have a number of subscribers at one
address, say yahoo.com or, as in my case usc.edu, it aggregates
them and sends one message to that particular mail host with a
whole bunch of names attached.  Much more efficient for all
concerned, but it makes it impossible to put individual messages to
different subscribers.  There are some list servers that do what
you want.  The one I happen to know does this is a commercial
server made by Lyris.  I suspect there are many more nowadays,
since most of the spam I get seems to put all sorts of
individualized content such as putting random garbage at the end of
the Subject line, but I don't know much about them.

Don MacDougall