October 2009 - 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: setting up Smartlist with sendmail
by Zhiliang Hu 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Now I am setting up Smartlist with qmail (on a RH mamchine). qmail is installed and tested. Previously I only copied Smartlist over from a similar platform (RH Linux). Now I decided to install from the source: I unpackaged SmartList-3.15 over procmail-3.22 (I cannot find procmail-3.15, thus by tweaking the folder name I managed to have them in the same dirrectory "procmail-3.15"). Now when I run > cd procmail-3.15/SmartList > sh install.sh /home/slist it spit out endlessly the following line: install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory ... that evenually I had to kill the process. Is it a version problem or else? Zhiliang

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Re: How Change Illiterate Confirmation Message
by charlie＠lofcom.com 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Santiago Vila wrote .. > I see no way to change this illiterate message. That message is hardly "illiterate." It may not suit you, which is certainly your call (I've edited mine, in fact, for some lists), but there's nothing whatsoever wrong with it as it stands. Insulting someone else's work isn't a good way to request help. > That text in embedded in a script called "confirm". You've answered your own question. With the confirm add-on (confirm is not a part of the official SmartList distribution, but is an add-on available elsewhere), edit the confirm_add script. If you are unsure how to edit a shell script, contact your provider. Charlie

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Re: How Change Illiterate Confirmation Message
by charlie＠lofcom.com 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Gregory Higgins wrote .. > "Reasonable good" is incorrect English (or at the very least, > incorrect American). The add-on was written by someone who does not speak English as a first language, and is not an American (please read the confirm_add shell script for his name and location), so he cannot be expected to write proper American English. The Internet is, to the surprise of many in my country, not limited to American citizens. > The incongruency grates on the ear and leaves a distinct flavor of > illiteracy on the tongue. Again, poppycock. A single grammatical mistake alone does not imply the writer was an illiterate or semiliterate person (you, after all, made one in your post dropping the object when referring to "incorrect American" when you meant "incorrect American English," and I'm certain you can find multiple grammatical and spelling errors in this posting, knowing my failings); it simply implies the guy screwed up _one word,_ using an adjective when an adverb was required, or screwed up _one letter,_ transposing an "e" for a "y" if one wanted to minimize the error even further. If you don't like it, change it - but don't suggest someone who wrote a much-needed add-on for SmartList without payment or even the promise of gratitude, is illiterate. He is clearly more literate, when it comes to computer programming _and_ English, than most of us here. Basically, everybody needs to lighten up a little; the guy did one helluva lot of work so we wouldn't have to, and griping about one word which is so painfully trivial to change seems to me churlish and petty. Charlie

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Re: How Change Illiterate Confirmation Message
by charlie＠lofcom.com 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

charlie(a)lofcom.com wrote .. > Santiago Vila wrote .. Actually, he didn't, Get Meek <get(a)meek.net> did. Apologies for the somewhat...er...illiterate error on my part. Charlie

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How Change Illiterate Confirmation Message
by Get Meek 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

The smartlist implementation at my ISP sends the following awkward confirmation message to those who try to subscribe: It has been requested that the following address: testonly(a)test.net should be added to the whatever mailing list. The address has NOT yet been subscribed to the mailing list. To subscribe you need to confirm the subscription request by sending an email to the address: whatever-request(a)oreg.net with the Subject string: CONFIRM s10240515293893 With a reasonable good email program a reply to this message should be sufficient I see no way to change this illiterate message. Can anyone on this list help?

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