At 7:07 PM -0400 7/28/00, Mike McNicholas is rumored to have typed:
smartlist/procmail can be very fustrating and demanding of your time.
Not particularly, unless you want to do something really cool.
that is why I switched to ezmlm. after i installed qmail (a very good tutorial by adam mckenna, showed how). I had a fully functional list the same day.
Well, I had a SmartList list operating after the first day I installed it, too, and sendmail doesn't give jaw-clenchingly cutsy error messages like, "Sorry it didn't work out," not to mention a mailing list server name that gets caught in spam filters monitoring for specific keywords used in spam messages. But I've been able to configure everything in my lists I didn't like, and make things run _exactly_ the way I want, not the way someone else thinks I should when using one command. Besides, what you neglected to mention is that procmail isn't _only_ used for mailing lists, but has about a gadzillion other uses (everything from delivering mail to rejecting spam to sorting those pesky mailing list inbound messages), where ezmlm is...well...a mailing list server based on a MTA that I don't want to use anyway. I hope you enjoy it; I understand that even majordomo has its proponents. But I'll stick to SmartList, thanks a bunch. Charlie (who hopes some of the clueless try to install qmail, so they pester _that_ list's subscribers...)