March 2004 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

How to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc ?
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

All, I am trying to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc from http://www.ha-schneider.de/software/smartlist/ to set up an archive for a mailing list. I have renamed rc.local.s10.mhonarc to rc.local.s30 and added following line to rc.custom RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_30 = rc.local.s30 rc.local.s10 and rc.local.s20 are already in use and since I do not know how to merge the recipe in rc.local.s10.mhonarc with either of the two, I renamed it to rc.local.s30 and added a new line in rc.custom. Could someone please help me understand as to how it all works. Thanks Nishi

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Archive egrep
by Alan Northam 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

The following is a sample of the results of a search that I receive by email. This there a way to hide the line number? ARCHIVE egrep august latest/* BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ latest/10:16:Monday, August 27, 2001 latest/11:16:Tuesday, August 21, 2001 latest/12:16:Wednesday, August 29, 2001 END-----------------cut here------------------ Thanks for your help! Alan,

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modify the subscribe/unsubscribe-mail
by Martin M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=ller 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

hi! how can i modyfiy the text for the automatic subscribe/unsubscribe-mail? The possibilities of a *subscribe.txt*-file in my folder are not enough for me. I want suppress the information about the transmited data and translate the rest of the mail to german. TIA, martin -- "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?" - Christine Comaford, PC Week

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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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{Scanned} Insufficient permission
by mauricio 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Hi, i have 700 users in my net and i want to create a e-mail address, that if a send to all(a)domain.com, everyone receives. I try to create a list named 'teste' with the command ./createlist teste user(a)domain.com After that, i run ./donatelist user teste When i send e-mail to teste-request with subject subscribe, i receive another e-mail with errors: "|exec /var/spool/listserv/.bin/flist teste-request" (reason: Insufficient permission) (expanded from: <teste-request(a)domain.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- flist: Insufficient privileges to become "listserv" 550 5.0.0 "|exec /var/spool/listserv/.bin/flist teste-request"... Insufficient permission In /var/spool/listserv: drwxrws--x 4 user listserv 4096 Mar 30 16:37 teste In /var/spool/listserv/teste: -rw-rw-r-- 2 user listserv 62 Mar 30 16:36 accept drwxrws--- 3 user listserv 4096 Mar 30 16:36 archive -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 794 Apr 26 1999 archive.txt drwxrws--- 2 user listserv 4096 Mar 30 16:37 bounces -rw-rw-r-- 2 user listserv 62 Mar 30 16:36 dist -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 2316 Apr 26 1999 help.txt -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 0 Mar 30 16:37 log -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 0 Mar 30 16:37 msgid.cache -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 4545 Mar 30 16:36 rc.custom -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 10248 Mar 30 16:23 rc.init -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 9139 Apr 26 1999 rc.request -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 7642 Apr 26 1999 rc.submit -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 0 Apr 26 1999 reject -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 0 Mar 30 16:37 request -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 351 Apr 26 1999 subscribe.txt -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 0 Mar 30 16:37 tmp.from -rw-rw---- 1 user listserv 0 Mar 30 16:37 tmp.request -rw-r--r-- 2 listserv listserv 258 Apr 26 1999 unsubscribe.txt Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance, Mauricio

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Field "Resent-From"
by Sergio Fdez 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Firstly to salute to all the members of the list. Sorry if my english is so bad... I have a problem with SmartList: when a user send an email to the list, in head of message appears all the suscriptor's directions in the field "Resent-From"; this it's very annoying when the suscritor's number is so long. How i'll can remove this field of the all message's header? Salu2 -- wikier(a)asturlinux.org http://www.wikier.tk wikier(a)jabber.org

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Field "Resent-From"
by Sergio Fdez 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

Firstly to salute to all the members of the list. Sorry if my english is so bad... I have a problem with SmartList: when a user send an email to the list, in head of message appears all the suscriptor's directions in the field "Resent-From"; this it's very annoying when the suscritor's number is so long. How i'll can remove this field of the all message's header? Salu2 -- wikier(a)asturlinux.org http://www.wikier.tk wikier(a)jabber.org

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Re:Disabling auto_help
by Harshal 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Rich, Thanks for your suggestions. I have a general spam filter for all the email addresses on that domain but I will double check to make sure that it also catches spam for the list addresses. > You can be more draconian and only allow "help" to work for those > already subscribed. That is perfectly fine with me. Almost no one uses the 'help' feature and setting it to subscriber-only will help me lots. Now, how do I do this? I could not find any flag in rc.custom for this. Thanks again, Harshal ===== http://www.mumbai-central.com : Where Mumbaikars meet __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

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Disabling auto_help
by Harshal 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Hello, The "-request" addresses for my lists get spammed daily which wouldn't be too much of a problem except that the list server helpfully sends back the 'help.txt' file to the 'From' address in the spam. Since almost all of these addresses are fake, all such emails result in a 'Unknown user' error message. I was to update the configuration so that the help.txt file is not sent back unless it is a real help request. It is currently sent even for messages with obvious spam subjects. I have set auto_help = no in my rc.custom file but this doesn't seem to have any affect. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks, Harshal ===== http://www.mumbai-central.com : Where Mumbaikars meet __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

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