October 2000 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Archives?
by Mitchell Darer 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello: Does SmartList have an archiving and (hopefully user friendly) search capability? [I'm not interested in the archives of this Disc List, but of the list I run for my 'users']. Thanks, Mitch Darer -- Mitchell Darer, WebMaster, mitch(a)focusing.org The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977 http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222 (phone/fax)

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Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?
by Charlie Summers 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

At 11:41 AM -0400 7/28/00, Werner Reisberger is rumored to have typed: > I never saw any > admin reply to the numerous complains about spam messages. Actually, that's not _strictly_ true, since I remember when Stephen was actually maintaining the list (and probably anally have archives of the list from that time somewhere on some floppy or MO cart from a long time ago and far far away). But you're right, it's been _years_ since he's been around. However, the list belongs to the maintainer (or at least the machine's admin), not the members. You'll get no argument from me that the list should be moved (I believe I said exactly that a couple of times), but to suggest the admins need to take a poll to ask what they may or may not do with the existing list is silly, to say the least. They are certainly able to move this list to mailman without the list subscriber's permission - indeed, they _have_ done so, which makes my point for me. Whether we should move this list to a SmartList server is a completely seperate issue...one which Philip should probably weigh in on, since he is now maintaining the procmail/SmartList source and as such the de facto head of our band of merry wanderers... Charlie

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smrsh and smartlist
by Thomas C. Smith 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Hi there, I was installing smartlist on a Redhat 6.2 machine yesterday that uses smrsh. I created a symbolic link in /etc/smrsh and get the following error in my maillog...any thoughts? ....can't fint /.etc in /var/spool/mail ummm...what's it looking for /.etc in /var/spool/mail for? I'm just slightly confused. Tom

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plain tekst problem
by Andrzej Kajetanowicz. 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

I use webhosting site that have smartlist preloaded. I was testing smartlist and got into peculiar problem that nobody could help me to solve. To make the story short finaly I found that if the message is sent as plain tekst it is rejected by list and directed to list administarator address. If message is html or rich text it gets to the list and is distributed to all subscribers. This is strange because plain tekst should be accepted all the time. I want to set the list to reject html messages but I cannot do it before I fix the plain text rejections. Does anybody have any suggestions? What do I do wrong? Thanks Andrzej --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.198 / Virus Database: 95 - Release Date: Oct/04/00

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Virtual Hosting and SmartList
by Sampson Multimedia 31 Oct '00

31 Oct '00

Hi, I'm trying to set up SmartList to work with several virtual hosting accounts on my server but just can't seem to be able to make it work... I installed SmartList on the different virtual accounts and have a link in "/etc/smrsh" to the "flist" program in the ".bin" directory of each account... It works but only the one linked to "flist"... In order to be able to have links to all the "flist" programs of all the accounts in "/etc/smrsh", I used different links with different names but they just DON'T work... it seems to me like Procmail wants the link in "/etc/smrsh" to be named "flist" ONLY, in order to work... Can someone out there please help??? Thanks! - Jorge.

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can you auto add something to the subject
by Franz Maruna 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Recently set up a thriving list with SmartList and the crew is very eager for the list name to be appended to the beginning of every subject for sorting reasons.. I believe I've seen majorDomo do this.. Reasonably simple task, except to do it right I think you'd want to parse the subject to make sure it wasn't a reply with the list name string already in place... Can smart list do something like that, and if so how? thanks! -frz

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outlook express rules
by Cindy 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

I am not sure if the person who asked how to filter mail in Outlook Express got his answer. It goes like this: Tools Msg Rules Mail Complete sections 1 and 2 section 3, click on the blue words and fill in the appropriate information section 4, name the rule. But, it does not look as though you can sort by header information. (Remember MS assumes people are either too lazy or too stupid to know what that information is for anyway.)

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Header and footer problems
by Paul J Brooten 22 Oct '00

22 Oct '00

I am running a list with about 20 users. I am using a rc.local.s20 file that puts the listname in the subject line and it also puts in a header and footer. When anyone other than the list maintainer sends a message to the list, it does not include the header and footer. Anyone know how to solve this problem? The rc.local.s20 looks like this. # # Adding a disclaimer at the beginning and/or end of every mail: # :0 fhw | cat - header.txt :0 fbw | cat - footer.txt # # To get rid of all X- fields: # :0 fhw | formail -I X- # rc.local.s20 # This routine will put the list name at the start of the message subject SUBJ=`formail -zx Subject: | sed -e "s|\[$list] ||g" -e "s|Re: Re: |Re: |g"` :0 fw * ! ^Subject:.[$list] * | formail -I "Subject: [$list] $SUBJ" SUBJ #:0 fhw # insert the listname in brackets before the subject text #* ^Subject: *\/[^ ].*$ #| formail -I"Subject: [$list] $MATCH" #:0 Efhw # make sure that there's _something_ for the subject #| formail -I"Subject: [$list] <none>" Thanks In Advance, Paul

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email headers
by Ellen V 22 Oct '00

22 Oct '00

Hi: I am new to this list. Can somebody tell me if there is a way to set email headers for your lists? Thanks, Ellen

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rconfig
by Cindy 20 Oct '00

20 Oct '00

ftp://ftp.pure.ch/pub/smartlist/ I found a tar file in this directory. Two rconfig files. I don't have a tar program (will winzip work? nah, didn't think so!). Is there some way I can get this into my domain? Also, do I need both of these rconfig files? One is dated September 2000, the next October 2000. This program is supposed to create a web interface for performing many Smartlist tasks. Has anyone used it? If so, what do you have to say abot it. Please remember this is the same person who does not yet know how to access moderated mail yet. Yes, I am working hard to learn this as fast as possible so I can stop bothering you kind people. Thanks! Cindy

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