March 2002 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

SmartList and Procmail
by Darryl Darling 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Hello, We have recently attempted to implement Smarlist and Procmail to replace our old listserve system. However we have not been successful with getting our previous mailing lists back working again. Can anyone direct me to a step by step setup for SmartList using Procmail on Solaris 5.8? Thanks, Darryl Darling UNIX Systems Administrator DoD Education Activity Phone 703.696.1420 x2727 Cellular 571.236.9020

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Transferring a list
by Mitch Darer 19 Mar '02

19 Mar '02

Hello: I want to transfer my list to a different server. I've looked at the FAQs, but can't find what I need to know, namely, which files do I need to bring over...? Maybe the safest bet is to xfer all of them, unless there's a downside or problem in doing so. I would figure I'd create the list, let Smartlist generate all the standard files, then overlay them w/ mine from the previous working server: accept archive (folder) archive.txt bounces(folder) dist (for sure...) dist.old footer.txt (ditto) header.txt (ditto) help.txt log moderators msgid.cache (?) rc.custom (a must) rc.custom.old rc.init rc.local.s10 (which I use, so that's a must) rc.local.s20 (ditto) rc.request rc.submit reject subscribe.txt tmp.from tmp.request unsubscribe.txt Thanks for any advice/help... Mitch Darer -- Mitchell Darer, WebMaster, Mitch(a)focusing.org The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977 http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222 (phone/fax)

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subject prepend
by Irwin Lazar 18 Mar '02

18 Mar '02

folks, i've implemented the below script per the FAQ to prepent "[MPLS-OPS]" to the subject of all list messages. However, the subject line is only adding "[-OPS]", any thoughts for a fix? ----------- # # rc.local.s10 # # # Insert the list name into the subject field (if not already there) # :0 fhw * $ ! ^Subject:.*\[$MPLS-OPS] * ^Subject:\/.* | formail -I "Subject: [$MPLS-OPS]:$MATCH"

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transfer list
by Mitch Darer 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

Hello: I want to transfer my list to a different server. I've looked at the FAQs, but can't find what I need to know, namely, which files do I need to bring over...? Maybe the safest bet is to xfer all of them, unless there's a downside or problem in doing so: accept archive (folder) archive.txt bounces(folder) dist (for sure...) dist.old footer.txt (ditto) header.txt (ditto) help.txt log moderators msgid.cache (?) rc.custom (a must) rc.custom.old rc.init rc.local.s10 (which I use, so that's a must) rc.local.s20 (ditto) rc.request rc.submit reject subscribe.txt tmp.from tmp.request unsubscribe.txt Thanks for any advice/help... Mitch Darer -- Mitchell Darer, WebMaster, Mitch(a)focusing.org The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977 http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222 (phone/fax)

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SmartList Performance on Linux
by Prashanth Gujjeti 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Hello everybody, We are running a small list of about 250 users on a Linux System using SmartList as the MailingList server. The OS is Redhat Linux Release 7.0 and the Processor: Pentium III running at 448 MHz with 128 MB RAM. By the way, I have the KDE graphics environment ON all the time. It takes around 5-10 minutes to send a single mail to all the users. The MTA we have is sendmail that comes along with Redhat distribution. Can any one help me improve the performance of the mailing list server? Thanks Prashanth K Gujjeti

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Trouble sending messages with large dist file
by Jeremy Ellington 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Hello, I'm attempting to use SmartList to send announcements to ~1700 members. The problems is that, although the list works flawlessly with a dist file containg ~10 addresses, when I use my large production dist file, not everyone gets the message. My own addresses are in the dist file, but I do not receive the message, although some addresses that appear before and after mine do. Does anyone have an trouble-shooting ideas? Thank You, Jeremy Ellington

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Echoing problem still
by Paul 'Baloo' Johnson 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

OK, I've noticed differences in the headers, but I still can't figure out what the hell it's problem is sending each message twice... Received: from list by ursine.dyndns.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16il7Y-0006Hu-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:46:56 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:46:55 -0800 (PST) From: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo(a)ursine.dyndns.org> To: God's Creatures <gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org> Subject: Echoing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203061546470.22155-100000(a)ursine.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <7ft4aC.A.r5F.vpqh8@ursine> Resent-From: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org Reply-To: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org X-Mailing-List: <gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org> archive/latest/83 X-Loop: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org List-Post: <mailto:gc@ursine.dyndns.org> List-Help: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=unsubscribe> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: SmartList <list(a)ursine.dyndns.org> Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:46:56 -0800 And now from the echo.... Received: from list by ursine.dyndns.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16il7Z-0006IS-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:46:57 -0800 X-From_:list@ursine.dyndns.org Wed Mar 06 15:46:57 2002 Received: from list by ursine.dyndns.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16il7Y-0006Hu-00; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:46:56 -0800 Old-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:46:55 -0800 (PST) From: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo(a)ursine.dyndns.org> To: God's Creatures <gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org> Subject: Echoing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203061546470.22155-100000(a)ursine.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <7ft4aC.A.r5F.vpqh8@ursine> Resent-From: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org Reply-To: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org X-Mailing-List: <gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org> archive/latest/83 X-Loop: gc(a)ursine.dyndns.org List-Post: <mailto:gc@ursine.dyndns.org> List-Help: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gc-request@ursine.dyndns.org?subject=unsubscribe> Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:46:56 -0800 X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored X-Envelope-To: gc-d Resent-Sender: SmartList <list(a)ursine.dyndns.org> -- Baloo

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Footers
by NAMA 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

What file would I have to edit to include a footer on every message going through the list I maintain?

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Pacing message output
by Jeremy Ellington 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

This is a follow-up to my question earlier today. Apparently, the administrators of my server DO block mass-mailing based on a secret quota scheme (they will not tell me how the quota is measured). This is happening even though their service agreement says nothing about the prohibition of solicited mailing lists. That said, is there anyway to throttle the smartlist message processing so that I can defeat their misguided SPAM-blocking? Thanks Again, Jeremy

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comments in moderators file
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Can 'moderators' file have comments in it say, starting with # or ! ? I have a main moderator and a backup moderator. I want to put both emails in the file with the backup moderator's email commented out so that I can uncomment it when the main moderator is unavailable (and comment out main's email address). Thanks Nishi

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