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
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/
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!
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.
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
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/
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
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
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
