February 2005 - 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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wrong multigram behaviour
by Werner Reisberger 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

There is an odd behaviour with multigram which should be fixed. If there is a subscribe request with the following header lines: From: myoffice(a)work.top Subject: subscribe _myposting(a)address.top myoffice(a)work.top will get subscribed if the match_treshold value is above 29000, otherwise "myposting(a)address.top" will be subscribed which is both buggy because _myposting(a)address.top is a valid email address according to rfc822 and the address in the subject line should take precedence. This behaviour is caused by a multigram call in the subscribe script which should eliminate leading and tailing punctuation. There are other vaild chars for the beginning of the local part which are affected. The chars are defined in the following line in multigram.c. static const char tpunctuation[]="@\\/!#$%^&*-_=+|~`';:,.?{}"; I think this code has been introduced to be as user friendly and fuzzy as possible and should be removed. If someone sends an invalid address like ".local(a)domain.top" this address should be rejected instead of trying to correct it. A quick fix to avoid this wrong subscribing behaviour would be to remove this multigram line from the subscribe script. I am wondering if there is still someone responsible for bug fixes and further development of smartlist/procmail? Werner

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Finding mail problems
by 'o-Dzin Tridral 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Dear all, I would appreciate any help in finding the best places to look when there are complaints about people missing messages on lists that I manage. I've turned on verbose logging on one of the lists, but there's no sign of it being unable to send messages to any of the people. I've sent a test message and asked people to reply to me if they receive it, so that I can get some idea of who isn't getting messages. The problem addresses seem to vary, judging by what people are saying - they receive some messages but not others. Any clues gratefully received. Many thanks, 'ö-Dzin Tridral

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