June 2006 - 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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Couple of Questions
by Stanley Laufer 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

First, thanks to those who developed Smart List. It was exactly what we needed. Couple of questions: 1. Currently, list subscribers do not receive a copy of their own posting when they post something to the list. I've checked the FAQ and the manual, and I don't see a way to allow list subscribers to receive a copy of their own postings. For the time being, I've used the recipe from the FAQ to set up an auto-reply, so the Sender at least knows that their message was received and posted successfully. But, for the long-term, I'd like to set it up so that subscribers will receive a copy of their own list postings. Is there a recipe that I can add to rc.local.s20 in order to accomplish that? 2. If I am manually maintaining the dist/accept file for a particular list, and I want to temporarily comment out a subscriber so that they will not receive list postings, would this be the correct syntax: (username(a)my.domain.net (User's Name)) I'm concerned about the nested comments for (User's Name). Will that throw off Smart List, or can Smart List handle nested parens? Thanks in advance Stanley E. Laufer Network Administrator School of Library and Information Science San Jose State University

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RE: Spam with subscriber's 'from' address
by Dr Jon Jenkins MLC 03 Jun '06

03 Jun '06

Hi I have had the same problem. However in my case I want to be able to "spoof" the list. I send HTML newsletters to the list from FrontPage -> Outlook -> Hotmail -> mailist@my_domain. In other words I send from a hotmail address with a return/reply to set to the only allowed address! This information mismatch may also be in the X-Sender information by the way! Have a look at the spammers header and they may have the X-Sender set to the real domain. It is probably a quick and dirty to redirect at that point although I think many people use this method to send mail to a list!! In my case it is a newsletter so after it happened the first time it was easier to shut the list down after posting the newsletter than to hack the rcfiles for check/filter for a match between hotmail/reply to address. By the way I have modified my procfiles to remove all the X-Sender information which got me into a lot of strife with Hotmail recently. Because the X-Sender was still in the header and out of 35,000 emails I had a few "not happy Jon's" hotmail killed off my Premium account for a while! Email me if you want the modified file which allows you to post to the list from a non subscribed address but remove where the post came from. Sort of allows people to do exactly what you are complaining about but it is useful sometimes :-) jon Prof Jon Jenkins MLC Parliament House Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Sydney Office Ph/Fax 02-9230-2752/2205 Nth Coast Office Ph/Fax 02-6676-2947/1543 Mob 0429178817 jon(a)trac.org.au www.trac.org.au > -----Original Message----- > From: smartlist-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > [mailto:smartlist-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE] On Behalf Of > Charlie Summers > Sent: Saturday, 3 June 2006 1:10 AM > To: Harshal; SmartList > Subject: Re:Spam with subscriber's 'from' address > > At 10:25 AM -0400 6/2/06, Harshal is rumored to have typed: > > > Any suggestions on how to handle this problem? > > Filter out that user's address (explaining to him the > problem, of course) > into your private mailbox*; if it continues with different subscribed > addresses, it's likely a manual spam by an existing > subscriber. Your only > option there is to 1) moderate the list, and 2) report every > spam to the > upstreams until it becomes too much of a hassle for the > spammer to continue. > > Charlie > > > > * There are a bazillion ways of writing procmail recipies to > allow the "real" > user to post while the clone cannot, but it assumes a > familiarity with email > header fields and procmail. In my case, for example, you > could check for my > address _and_ my mail server in the header fields; if mail > with my address > isn't delivered by 69.93.98.146, redirect away from the list > to your private > mailbox. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Smartlist mailing list > Smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/smartlist > >

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Spam with subscriber's 'from' address
by Harshal 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

My mailing list is set up to allow posting by members only but in the past few days spam with forged a 'from' address that matches a subscriber's address has been getting through. Any suggestions on how to handle this problem? Thanks, - Harshal http://www.mumbai-central.com : Where Mumbaikars meet __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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