July 2002 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Moderated List Woes
by David W. Gulley 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

This is not a strictly smartlist question, but hoped someone might have a recommendation. I am the administrator for a non-profit groups website (and email lists). The members (including myself) are all volunteers, using their own software (in other words, there is no standard!). One of the lists (about 200 members) used to notify members of urgent news has been set up as moderated and works fine (for me). The actual list moderator uses Juno (need I say more). I had added a recipe in RC.LOCAL.S10 to capture an "Approved" message from the body and add it to the header (since he has no way of directly affecting the header). This works great for me, but apparently, it is somewhat random under the Juno web based email. It appears there is no way to turn off the HTML formatting under the Juno email. OK, so then I create a web form that allows the moderator to fill in the message, subject and has a password. I thought I could just let him fill it in and then send the message to the list using a CGI script. It seems that he can access the list and fill it in but submitting it strips all of the info so that the CGI is never called, and he just gets a "Can not display page" screen. Has anyone run into similar problems or might suggest a work around? Thanks, David W. Gulley Destiny Designs

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X-Commands in body longer than 72-80 characters?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Are there any scripts or work-arounds for the problem of X-Command lines in the body of an email message being broken into two lines if they're longer than 72-80 characters? I don't know if something's changed in our organization, or if we just happened to not process any longer than this, but I can see in the mail logs that an X-Command that's two long gets broken into two lines, usually before the email address. These X-Commands then fail. I'm not much of a procmail user. Is it possible to tell the rc.local.00 script that if it finds an X-Command in the first line of a body, it should concatenate all the subsequent lines into one, until it comes to the first blank line? Then, the rule for X-Commands in the body of a message would be that the X-Command must be the first line in the body, and must be followed by a blank line. Thank you for your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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X-Commands in body longer than 72-80 characters?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 16 Jul '02

16 Jul '02

Are there any scripts or work-arounds for the problem of X-Command lines in the body of an email message being broken into two lines if they're longer than 72-80 characters? I don't know if something's changed in our organization, or if we just happened to not process any longer than this, but I can see in the mail logs that an X-Command that's too long gets broken into two lines, usually before the email address. These X-Commands then fail. I'm not much of a procmail user. Is it possible to tell the rc.local.00 script that if it finds an X-Command in the first line of a body, it should concatenate all the subsequent lines into one, until it comes to the first blank line? Then, the rule for X-Commands in the body of a message would be that the X-Command must be the first line in the body, and must be followed by a blank line. Thank you for your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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Adult Passwords
by smartlist＠informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE 13 Jul '02

13 Jul '02

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Spam and SmartList (Was: Re:Adult Passwords)
by Charlie Summers 13 Jul '02

13 Jul '02

At 9:52 AM -0400 7/13/02, smartlist(a)informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE is rumored to have typed: > <html><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> > <head> > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) >[Netscape]"> > <title> Free porn passes to all the top sites > </title> Hum...interesting (but not terribly surprising) that Mailman can be fooled by something so embarassingly simple. SmartList wouldn't be (assuming foreign_submit is unset, which is the only way to run a list nowadays), since the list name wouldn't be within the dist file. (If one sets up a digest the "normal" way, subscribing the digest to the interactive, it might get distributed to a digested list, however.) Charlie

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Strange message in the log file
by Harshal 10 Jul '02

10 Jul '02

My SmartList log file is filled with these line: procmail: Extraneous deliver-head flag ignored It occurs in clusters of various sizes. Anyone know what's causing it and how to get rid of it? Thanks, Harshal ===== http://www.mumbai-central.com : Where Mumbaikars meet __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com

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new confirm package released
by Werner Reisberger 08 Jul '02

08 Jul '02

The main new feature of confirm 1.2.6 is a check of the given email address for conformity to RFC822. The most requirements of RFC822 are matched, one exception are addresses with the local part in double qotes (I never heard about a need for it). If someone sends an invalid address like bla;user(a)dom.com an error message is send back and no subscription or cookie creation happens. On the other hand addresses with uncommon characters in the local part (*+#?%$) are allowed. confirm 1.2.6 is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/pub/smartlist/ Werner

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