How to format an Email-message for NewsMerge?

Updated on 2002-04-04 by Andre Lorbach.

You must send an Email with the following specified format. 
Please be sure that the commands are written correctly (They are case sensitive!):

• No subject needed
• MailFrom should be the Emailaddress from the new subscriber (Who subscribes /unsubscribes)
• The message-body should be in text/plain and can contain the following attributes:
  
  subscribe NewsletterName
  firstname SubscriberFirstName
  lastname SubscriberLastname
  
  
• The following fields are new since NewsMerge Version 1.2 and can be used in the message.body as well.
  
  newsletter: NewsletterName
  action: subscribe / unsubscribe
  unsubscribe NewsletterName 
  subscribe: NewsletterName
  firstname: SubscriberFirstName
  lastname: SubscriberLastname
  middlename SubscriberMiddleName
  middlename: SubscriberMiddleName
  emailaddress: Subscribers email address     *This will overwrite the MailFrom from the Emailheader
  
  gender M / F 
  gender: M / F
  age 1-200 
  age: 1-200
  birthday YYYY-MM-DD         *An example: 1980-01-31
  birthday: YYYY-MM-DD         *same as before
  htmlmail 0 / 1                            *0 = Subscriber can't read HTMl Messages, 1 = Subscriber can read HTMl Messages
  htmlmail: 0 / 1                            *same as before
  
  customfield1 What ever you want
  customfield1: What ever you want
  customfield2 What ever you want
  customfield2: What ever you want
  customfield3 What ever you want
  customfield3: What ever you want
  comments What ever you want
  comments: What ever you want

All this fields are processed by the POP3Checker in Newsmerge.In the Newsmerge EventLog, you will see how many subscribers / Abonnements has been added.