On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
So now I know I understood right in the beginning the X-Command: , but unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem with subscriptions ...
While sending mesaage to testing-request@ with
Subject: subscribe
and empty mesage body I get back:
[...] WARNING: Please make sure to start the Subject: of requests to the archive- server with the word archive. Unknown command subscribe. [...]
What shall I do?
Use the source and the usual debugging procedures.
Smartlist thinks your subcribe request is an archive request. The code that does this is in rc.request when it calls "| arch_retrieve". Put VERBOSE=yes at the top of the file and analyze the logs after trying again.
[ I would perhaps disable the X-command-allowed-in-the-body feature just to be sure it's not the cause for this behaviour ].
Well, it turned I did not manage to undo partial installation of confirm-1.2.3.tar.gz package. I's a pitty it's not a part of standard smartlist bundle. So after I've used: diff -u -r .etc smartlist/procmail-3.15/SmartList/etc it turned out I had the rc.submit from the confirm-1.2.3 package. So, cat smartlist/procmail-3.15/SmartList/etc/rc.request > .etc/rc.request solved my problem. I think confirmation of subscription and unsubscription is nice, spammers never subscribe to the list and forcing autosubscription will open gate to spam (although I could use anti-Spam packages using procmail, yes) and confirming unsubscribe stops people unsubscribing others. It would be nice if the doc's would say that even the default setup when there's no unsub confirmation sends to the address which was unsubscribed a note what happened. BTW: --- smartlist/procmail-3.15/SmartList/bin/subscribe Sat Dec 21 04:28:11 1996 +++ /usr/users/listserv/.bin/subscribe Tue Feb 26 10:15:40 2002 @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ $test ! -z "$wrongaddress" && $echo "$wrongaddress" && wrongaddress="" - $echo "You have added to the subscriber list of:" + $echo "You have been added to the subscriber list of:" $echo "" $echo " $listaddr" $echo "" -- Martin Mokrejs - PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3616 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585