August 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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Re:dropping non-subscriber posts without acknowledgment
by Richard A. DeMattia 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

David W. Tamkin remarked: > ,,, > ...Subscribers may post from other addresses without telling > you. It may be a better idea to shunt mail from unrecognized addresses > to a holding folder that you review with your own eyes. That seems to be a reasonable approach. My intention was to reduce the extra traffic of bounce messages to illegal addresses and their subsequent non-delivery notices, not so much to avoid having to see the offending messages myself as list maintainer. I'll watch the results for a while. Perhaps I'll get another bright idea. -- Rick DeMattia <rad(a)nshore.org> The secret of the universe is|^&*||x|NO CARRIER

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Re: dropping non-subscriber posts without acknowledgement
by Richard A. DeMattia 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

David, thank you very kindly - the recipe now seems to work as I expected it to do. Do you have any comment on the overall premise? Am I doing the right thing to just drop non-subscriber mail on the floor? (After I watch that reject.nosub file for a while, I plan to change it to /dev/null if it looks like nothing useful is getting filed there...) -- Rick DeMattia <rad(a)nshore.org> The secret of the universe is|^&*||x|NO CARRIER

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re: dropping nonsubsciber's posts
by Richard A. DeMattia 22 Aug '04

22 Aug '04

It occurs to me that placing this recipe at the top of rc.local.s00 might cause me to lose legitimate mail-non-delivery notices for real subscribers. Maybe I should put the address-matching in the "rejectmesg" and "quotereject" scripts, rather than in the rc.local.s00? -- Rick DeMattia <rad(a)nshore.org> The secret of the universe is|^&*||x|NO CARRIER

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dropping non-subscriber posts without acknowledgement
by Richard A. DeMattia 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

The tremendous proportion of spam from non-subscribers has prompted me to attempt to drop all posts to my mailing list from nonsubscribers, without sending any acknowledgement at all - to avoid the bounced email multiplication factor. I have been tinkering with rc.local.s00 in an attempt to do this, but not with very much success. I have placed the following at the top of my rc.local.s00 script, but I find that nothing gets logged to the reject.nosub file, and posts with attachments from nonsubscribers get matched by recipes further down in this file. My hope was that if this recipe were matched, that no further processing of the message would be done, and that it would not be delivered nor rejected. My testing list does not have foreign_submit set. :0 * 9876543210^0 foreign_submit ?? y * -2^0 ? formail -X"From " -xFrom: -xReply-To: -xSender: -xResent-From: \ -xResent-Reply-To: -xResent-Sender: -xReturn-Path: | \ multigram -b1 -m -l$submit_threshold -L$domain \ -x$listaddr -x$listreq accept accept2 { :0 c | formail -i "Subject: ***Aug20 mod drop msg from non-subscriber***"|\ $SENDMAIL -oi $maintainer :0 A reject.nosub } Any assistance is appreciated - thank you in advance. -- Rick DeMattia <rad(a)nshore.org> The secret of the universe is|^&*||x|NO CARRIER

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