July 2005 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

How to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc ?
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 20 Jul '18

20 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 20 Jul '18

20 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 20 Jul '18

20 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 20 Jul '18

20 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 20 Jul '18

20 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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mail archive file
by Zhiliang Hu 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Currently my Smartlist saves mail archive with permission 660 and group of the list account, like in: -rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 1860 Jun 6 09:38 4298 How may I change it to save with permission 644 or with a different group? (I have already made ~slist a member of another group), like in -rw-r--r-- 1 slist slist 1860 Jun 6 09:38 4298 -rw-rw---- 1 slist web 1860 Jun 6 09:38 4298 I guess it would be somewhere in rc.submit but appreciate any hint. Thanks, Zhiliang

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RE: procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" (smartlist)
by Kim Ridenour 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

re tmp.lock I had verbose on. This is the output from a single attempt to subscribe: procmail: [9466] Wed Jul 13 10:29:52 2005 procmail: Assigning "minbounce=3" procmail: Assigning "auto_off_threshold=28672" procmail: Assigning "off_threshold=24476" procmail: Assigning "reject_threshold=30730" procmail: Assigning "submit_threshold=28672" procmail: Assigning "foreign_submit" procmail: Assigning "auto_help=yes" procmail: Assigning "moderated_flag=yes" procmail: Assigning "X_COMMAND_PASSWORD=********" procmail: Assigning "RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_20=rc.local.s20" procmail: Assigning "RC_CUSTOM" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=" procmail: Assigning "LOCKFILE=tmp.lock" procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" procmail: [9427] Wed Jul 13 10:29:55 2005 procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" procmail: [9466] Wed Jul 13 10:30:00 2005 procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" The last two lines have now repeated for 4 hours. 4,441 procmail processes have been started and we're still going. Seems fairly obvious to me that there's a problem here. I understand the basic principle of locking the file. What I don't understand is how to stop the endless repetitions of start process -- lock ... start process -- lock. It would be good to know what caused this problem and how to fix it. Thanks, Kim

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procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" (smartlist)
by Kim Ridenour 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I have forms that automatically process subscribe/unsubscribe requests using x-command. For the past few days, I've been getting an error I've never seen before. No changes are made to the dist file. Nothing appears in request. Hundreds of processes are created, and my smartlist log shows this entry, apparently every time a process is created: procmail: Locking "tmp.lock" Can anybody tell me what the cause and cure are for this? Thank you for any help you can provide. Kim

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