November 2001 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

digest How to stop
by Maine Job Search 09 Nov '01

09 Nov '01

My list is running as a news letter How can I get it to stop sending a digest out to every one on the list.It should only come to me. David Leamy dave(a)mainejobsearch.com

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Re:bounces
by Andreas Huttenrauch 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

> So a human _should_ be periodically reviewing the bounces to make sure > there isn't a problem anywhere. I totally agree. What I meant with not wanting to see the bounces is I don't want to see them in MY inbox. As list owner, there is enough mail coming in there that needs immediate attention. I would like to re-route bounces to another address so that I may automatically move them to another folder using mail message rules. Andreas

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bounces
by Andreas Huttenrauch 07 Nov '01

07 Nov '01

Hi there, When the list owner sends out a newsletter via SmartList, all bounces are received by the list owner. How can one turn this feature off, or redirect just the bounces to another address? We do not wish to see bounces - just let SmartList take care of them. Thanks in advance. Andreas

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Moderation not working like documented?
by Martin Schulze 06 Nov '01

06 Nov '01

Moin! I'm having little trouble with a list that ought to be moderated. The documentation of SmartList says: ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/Manual.html#3f 3f.Moderated lists --------------- First create a file named "moderators", it should contain the fully qualified mail addresses of all the moderators for this list (i.e. just local usernames are not sufficient, at least include an @host or host! ). Then uncomment the appropriate "moderated_flag" line in rc.custom.

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smartlist, mhonarc, month, year, ...
by Marco Gaiarin 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

I'm settin up a web archive of a some smartlist lists, and i wont setup archive divided into year and month, like debian does. How?! -- Se si insegna a un bambino a programmare in qualche linguaggio informatico, questo esercizio logico lo renderà padrone e non schiavo del computer. (Umberto Eco)

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Newbie has a number of Questions?
by Andrew J Sands 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Hi, I have downloaded and printed the manual, the README, INTRO & INSTALL. I am however mildly confused by some things I have missed. 1. I plan to install and run SmartList from a RH7.1 box, the instructions indicate that I required both the source for procmail and smartlist. As the aforementioned box already has procmail/sendmail installed by RPM do I have to remove them? (rpm -e) before d/l and installing smartlist?? 2. As it is more economical for me to be secondary MX behind my ISP, can I use mail names (aliases) which they allow me to set-up and then filter by local procmail to drive smartlist. i.e. my.listname@domain.name/my.listname-request@domain.name would be mapped to actual.user.list.name(a)domain.name, then would it be possible for a .procmail to filter on the "To: " field. If I have missed either of these points within the documents, can someone point me in the right(relevant) direction. Thanks. Andrew

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improvement in subscribe shell script
by mark david mcCreary 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

I think the following code is better, because it allows domain names to start with digits when handling email that has subcribe abc(a)21cn.com in the Subject line. address=`$formail -k -xSubject: | $sed -n -e 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/' \ -e '/^[ ]*[^ a-z]/ q' \ -e 's/^[^@]*add[ ]*'\ '[^ ]*[ ]$[^ ]*[-a-z0-9_][@!][a-z0-9][^ ]*$.*/\1/p' \ -e 's/^[^@]*address[ ]*'\ '[^ ]*[ ]$[^ ]*[-a-z0-9_][@!][a-z0-9][^ ]*$.*/\1/p' \ -e 's/^[^@]*sub[ ]*'\ '[^ ]*[ ]$[^ ]*[-a-z0-9_][@!][a-z0-9][^ ]*$.*/\1/p' \ -e 's/^[^@]*subscribe[ ]*'\ '[^ ]*[ ]$[^ ]*[-a-z0-9_][@!][a-z0-9][^ ]*$.*/\1/p' ` THe only difference is I added 0-9 in the sed check after the @ symbol. mark

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Re: Where is this text?
by Stan Goodman 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

** Reply to message from "David W. Gulley" <dgulley@destinydesigns. com> on Sun, 04 Nov 2001 09:19:46 -0600 > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > > When a subscriber attempts to unsubscribe from his new address rather > > that the one for which he is subscribed, he receives the following > > message from SmartList: > > > > > You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. > > The above is in the file "unsubscribe" in the SmartList distribution (in > the \SmartList\bin directory). > > > > If it wasn't your intention to unsubscribe, or if you are having > > > problems getting yourself unsubscribed, reply to this mail now, > > > quoting it entirely (for diagnostic purposes), and of course > > > adding any comments you see fit. > > > > > > Transcript of unsubscription request follows: > > The above is in the file "unsubscribe.txt" in each list directory. No, not here. What is in unsubscribe.txt is the above text MINUS the line beginning "You have not been removed...". That is the part that I want to edit. I am sorry I was not sufficiently explicit about that. I should have said that the first line is what I am trying to locate. Stan Goodman

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Where is this text?
by Stan Goodman 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

When a subscriber attempts to unsubscribe from his new address rather that the one for which he is subscribed, he receives the following message from SmartList: > You have not been removed, I couldn't find your name on the list. > > If it wasn't your intention to unsubscribe, or if you are having problems > getting yourself unsubscribed, reply to this mail now, quoting it entirely (for > diagnostic purposes), and of course adding any comments you see fit. > > Transcript of unsubscription request follows: I would prefer to change the wording (not least because it sounds as though it comes frm a human source rather than a robot), but I do not know in which file this text resides. Can someone tell me so I can edit it? -- Stan Goodman

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Large posts getting duplicated
by Doug Mansfield 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

Posts to one of my lists that are larger than 4.5K are being duplicated. The archive only has a single entry. The message headers are the same for both messages (except for the outgoing ID and date stamps). And as near as I can tell, it does not happen to everyone on the list. Just to confirm it, I subed a free yahoo account and it received the duplicates. My sendmail logs show both messages being delivered. Any idea? -- DougM mansfield(a)sportster.org http://www.sportster.org

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