November 2000 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

How to put someone on moderated
by Listmail 22 Nov '00

22 Nov '00

I have a similar problem. We want all of our new subscribers being moderated initially until we see that they did not simply join the list to spam. We de-linked the accept list. As I understand, this will send all posts from persons NOT in the accept list to the maintainer. Our maintainer will then read and forward the message(s), eventually manually adding the email address to the accept file OR she will delete the msg and add the email addy to the reject file. This seems to be working? Would be a pain for you though, because you would have to manually add all your subs as they come in into the accept file. I might suggest adding a nonaccept file as a feature...not the same as reject (doesn't reject just trash the message? We want it to go to the maintainer) Jo

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Running smartlist without root access
by Chris Green 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Well I'm here again asking this same question..... I have installed Smartlist 3.15 on a Linux system where I have a shell login account. I also have two domains hosted on the system and *all* mail to either of these domains is delivered to me (as I'm the postmaster, among other things). My *actual* mail address there is chris(a)isbd.co.uk, I'd like to set up a Smartlist list with the name uk-riders(a)isbd.co.uk, presumably with the request address being uk-riders-request(a)isbd.co.uk. Presumably I need to do the following:- Add a .forward file so that mail is delivered using procmail, something like "|exec /home/d/cgreen/slist/.bin/procmail" Add some rules to the .procmailrc file so that mail for uk-riders(a)isbd.co.uk and uk-riders-request(a)isbd.co.uk is delivered to flist. What would be the exact syntax of these two rules? Is that all I need do (apart from the basic bits and pieces in the Smartlist configuration scripts)? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) Home: chris(a)isbd.demon.co.uk Work: cgreen(a)bcs.org.uk WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/

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Control of list postings by header info
by MRFA Membership Chairman 21 Nov '00

21 Nov '00

Does anyone have a quick and dirty fix to the rc.custom or rc.init that will reject anonymous postings? We've had some problems recently with some toad sending emails to lists without complete headers, thereby obscuring his/her idenity. The emails had virus files attached. I'd like to dump any postings sent without the header lines that identify the sender and/or host server. Also, the docs are somewhat unclear. If the "foreign_submit = yes" is uncommented, does that permit, or prevent submissions. It would seem logically to permit them, but there are two entries in the file, a "#foreign_submit" and a "##foreign_submit = yes" The docs say to "...uncomment the appropriate entry." I want to restrict posting to people on the hardlinked accept list. Thanks in advance for the help!

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mailmain / smarlist
by Master 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

I've noticed that the web interface for this list is mailman? I'm trying to find a graphical interface for smartlist, and was wondering if mailman is a solution. Thnxs, dansan.

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Re: procbounce unsubs the sender
by Zhiliang Hu 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

I and at least another person experience the same problem, although it does not ALWAYS occur (about 5% of the time, I guess) on my list. Do not know if the newer versions addressed the problem. Please refer to archives on this list with the Subject: "This should NOT be right" around March, 1999. Zhiliang On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Del Kimbler wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:19:14 -0500 > From: Del Kimbler <kimbler(a)ces.clemson.edu> > To: smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > Subject: procbounce unsubs the sender > > Occasionally procbounce detects an excessive number of bounces and proceeds > to unsubscribe the sender, not the bouncing address. Have looked at > procbounce and rc.request, but I can't find how this can happen. I am using > the default bounce parameters, using 3.13.1 in a Solaris environment with > the public (not Sun) sendmail. Any ideas? > > Del > > D. L. Kimbler, Ph.D., P.E. > Professor, Industrial Engineering > Clemson University > Voice: (864)656-5645 > Fax: (864)656-0795

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Smartlist
by Chris Green 20 Nov '00

20 Nov '00

I am trying to set up Smartlist (is there a separate list for that?). Do I need root access to do this? I have my own domain and shell access on the system where all mail to this domain gets delivered but I don't have root acces there. I can install Smartlist but it appears to need accesss to /usr/lib/aliases, is there any other way to do it? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) Home: chris(a)isbd.demon.co.uk Work: cgreen(a)bcs.org.uk WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/

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Moderating: How to approve without becoming sender?
by Jorge Astray 19 Nov '00

19 Nov '00

Hello, I have reviewed all the Smartlist FAQ and manuals and they all miss one point: + What is the way for a moderator to re-send an approved message without becoming the sender of the approved message? I have started moderating a list and since then, all messages seem to be posted by myself, and what is worst, answers are sent to me instead to the original sender. Maybe the trouble is the e-mail SW that I use (Pegasus), but my guess is that SmartList has to process somehow the message in order to clean all moderator data. Jorge Astray Rodriguez-Lafora

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SmartList mailing won't get distributed, why?
by Lee Howard 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

The following is the verbose log relating to attempted posting(s) that won't go out from our SmartList mailing list. Could someone please look these over and tell me why? Thanks Lee Howard procmail: [26762] Tue Nov 14 15:41:54 2000 procmail: Unlocking "dist.lock" procmail: Assigning "LOCKFILE" procmail: Unlocking "tmp.lock" procmail: No match on ! "< 524288" procmail: No match on "(^(Mailing-List:|Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)|To: Multiple recipients of |(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)|X-Envelope-From):|>?From )([^>]*[^(.%@a-z0-9])?(Post(ma?(st(e?r)?|n)|office)|(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon| m(mdf|ajordomo)|n?uucp|LIST(SERV|proc)|NETSERV|o(wner|ps)|r(e(quest|sponse)| oot)|b(ounce|bs\.smtp)|echo|mirror|s(erv(ices?|er)|mtp(error)?|ystem)|A(dmin (istrator)?|MMGR|utoanswer))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*)?[%@> ][^<)]*($.*$.*)?)?$([^>]|$)))" procmail: No match on "^X-Loop: ()mailing(a)1cache\.com" procmail: No match on ! "^X-(Diagnostic|Processed):" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=" procmail: No match on ! "^X-(Diagnostic|Processed):" procmail: Executing "formail,-AX-Envelope-To: mailing-request" procmail: No match on ! "." procmail: Executing " formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRead-Receipt-To: \ -iAcknowledge-To: | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT $sendmailOPTp $maintainer" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRead-Receipt-To: \ -iAcknowledge-To: | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT $sendmailOPTp $maintainer" >From webmaster(a)1cache.com Tue Nov 14 15:41:50 2000 Folder: formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRea 1379 procmail: [26737] Tue Nov 14 16:40:21 2000 procmail: Timeout, terminating " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist" procmail: [26737] Tue Nov 14 16:43:23 2000 procmail: Non-zero exitcode (-15) from " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist" procmail: No match on " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=" procmail: Match on ! "^X-(Diagnostic|Processed):" procmail: Executing "formail,-AX-Diagnostic: Unprocessed" procmail: Executing "formail,-AX-Envelope-To: mailing-request" procmail: No match on ! "." procmail: Executing " formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRead-Receipt-To: \ -iAcknowledge-To: | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT $sendmailOPTp $maintainer" procmail: [26737] Tue Nov 14 16:43:24 2000 procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRead-Receipt-To: \ -iAcknowledge-To: | $SENDMAIL $sendmailOPT $sendmailOPTp $maintainer" >From webmaster(a)1cache.com Tue Nov 14 15:40:21 2000 Subject: 1Cache November Newsletter Folder: formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRea 192807

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X-Command PHP script
by Adam Davis 15 Nov '00

15 Nov '00

I see the xcommand.phtml page at several web sites, but have been unable to find the actual script. I'd like to get this up and running as quickly as possible, so don't want to mess around with writing my own script. I alreay have smartlist up and running just fine. -Adam

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'Reply-To'
by Anne-Marie Oualit 14 Nov '00

14 Nov '00

Hi! I just started using SmartList yesterday. I've got "Reply-To: $listaddr" in my rc.custom file but it doesn't work for all subscribers. When I hit reply to some of the members' messages, the reply goes to the sender. I don't have this problem myself - I get the list address when I hit reply to my own messages. Does this have something to do with the way the various mail programs are set up? Kind regards, Anne-Marie Oualit Copenhagen, Denmark

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