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

SmartList for Dummies?
by Listmail 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Hello, My host offers mailing lists through the installed SmartList program. I am also a reseller for said host, so my customers may also have mailing lists. Can you point me towards any resources that deal with SmartList specifically from the beginning end-users standpoint? End-users who do not have access via/(or don't want to use) telnet and also don't have access to modify the program itself, just their own directory files, and who also don't know a whole lot about programming. For instance, I've seen a lot of the same FAQs over the past few days saying to de-link the accept file from the dist file. I discovered quite by accident that if I deleted the accept file then recreated a new one, they were no longer linked. Now that is something a newbie can handle! Jo

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List-* headers...
by Charlie Summers 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Afternoon, folks. Although not directly SmartList-related, I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of the RFCs detailing the List-* headers that are recommended for mailing lists; adding them to rc.submit.20 and .bin/digest should be trivial, assuming I can figure out what the "standard" proposal is. Charlie

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choplist?
by Evan Knop 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

What is the current status of choplist? It is mentioned in the manuals, but none of the distributions I've seen (one RPM of 3.13, the 3.15 tarball from procmail.org, and a 3.10 tarball from a mirror) seem to contain this tool. I saw something in the HISTORY file for 3.12 [choplist wasn't counting addresses correctly], but all the documentation seems to make reference to it. Should I just use sendmail, or is there a current version of choplist? Thanks, -- Evan Knop <argent(a)dartmouth.edu> http://lore.dartmouth.edu/~argent/ Be Developer finger argent(a)lore.dartmouth.edu for PGP

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list-poster gets copy of post
by Jason Fleisher 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

How can I prevent a list-poster from being copied with the email they just sent to the list? Jason

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new rconfig version
by Werner Reisberger 13 Nov '00

13 Nov '00

Just put a new version of rconfig (a SmartList configuration tool usable over the web) on the ftp server: ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/rconfig.0.05.tar.gz See the CHANGES file for what's new. Werner

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Content-Disposition: inline
by Zhiliang Hu 11 Nov '00

11 Nov '00

I have recipes to filter out mails with attachment/html/etc., with info collected on this discussion list. Recently some well formated pure ascii (text) mails were filtered out for the line in header: Content-Disposition: inline I checked through some mails, and found mails that really have attachment/multipart have "filename=XXXXXX" on the same line. So I modified my recipe to catch: ^Content-Disposition: inline; filename= Is this acurate enough? What does "inline" represent anyway? (I know this is not a SmartList question but I searched on net ..., including the RFC rules, but failed to find any). Any knowledge sharing is appreciated. Thanks! Zhiliang

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How to not send an unsubscribe message
by Majewski, Phillip 09 Nov '00

09 Nov '00

Is there a way to not send the unsubscribe (unsubscribe.txt) message when someone unsubscribes to the list? Phil ------------------------------------------------- Phil Majewski Thomson Financial Media phillip.majewski(a)tfn.com

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Question?
by Dan Hoggard 07 Nov '00

07 Nov '00

Hello All, I have a problem with the smartlist and was wondering if someone can help. I can get everything to work except the header and footer. No matter what I try I can't get the footer.txt to work. I took the # off in the rc.custom file at RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_20 = rc.local.s20 I created a rc.local.s20 file and put this in it: # # Adding a disclaimer in front of every mail: # :0 fbw | cat - footer.txt Then I created a footer.txt and placed my text. It just won't work. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks Dan

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installation help
by Thomas C. Smith 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Okay, I've gotten around my problem with smrsh, but here's a new problem. I can't subscribe to any list (no errors generated) and if I manually add to the dist list, I can't send mail to the subscribers list (no error generated). I can use X-command to subscribe addresses, but still can't send mail. I'm not getting anything ominous in the log and no mail is getting returned or bounced with errors? Any ideas? Tom

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reply to <foo@bar>
by Zhiliang Hu 02 Nov '00

02 Nov '00

Sometimes my smartlist tries to reply to <foo@bar> in response to mails sent to the "-request" address. (the mail then bounce to the maintainer). Can't find where this is initiated. I searched the faq but don't seem to find things similar. I vaguely recall it was mentioned some short while ago. Could someone elaborate a bit? Thanks! Zhiliang

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