March 2003 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

How to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc ?
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

All, I am trying to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc from http://www.ha-schneider.de/software/smartlist/ to set up an archive for a mailing list. I have renamed rc.local.s10.mhonarc to rc.local.s30 and added following line to rc.custom RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_30 = rc.local.s30 rc.local.s10 and rc.local.s20 are already in use and since I do not know how to merge the recipe in rc.local.s10.mhonarc with either of the two, I renamed it to rc.local.s30 and added a new line in rc.custom. Could someone please help me understand as to how it all works. Thanks Nishi

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Archive egrep
by Alan Northam 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

The following is a sample of the results of a search that I receive by email. This there a way to hide the line number? ARCHIVE egrep august latest/* BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ latest/10:16:Monday, August 27, 2001 latest/11:16:Tuesday, August 21, 2001 latest/12:16:Wednesday, August 29, 2001 END-----------------cut here------------------ Thanks for your help! Alan,

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modify the subscribe/unsubscribe-mail
by Martin M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=ller 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

hi! how can i modyfiy the text for the automatic subscribe/unsubscribe-mail? The possibilities of a *subscribe.txt*-file in my folder are not enough for me. I want suppress the information about the transmited data and translate the rest of the mail to german. TIA, martin -- "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?" - Christine Comaford, PC Week

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Archives?
by Mitchell Darer 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello: Does SmartList have an archiving and (hopefully user friendly) search capability? [I'm not interested in the archives of this Disc List, but of the list I run for my 'users']. Thanks, 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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Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?
by Charlie Summers 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

At 11:41 AM -0400 7/28/00, Werner Reisberger is rumored to have typed: > I never saw any > admin reply to the numerous complains about spam messages. Actually, that's not _strictly_ true, since I remember when Stephen was actually maintaining the list (and probably anally have archives of the list from that time somewhere on some floppy or MO cart from a long time ago and far far away). But you're right, it's been _years_ since he's been around. However, the list belongs to the maintainer (or at least the machine's admin), not the members. You'll get no argument from me that the list should be moved (I believe I said exactly that a couple of times), but to suggest the admins need to take a poll to ask what they may or may not do with the existing list is silly, to say the least. They are certainly able to move this list to mailman without the list subscriber's permission - indeed, they _have_ done so, which makes my point for me. Whether we should move this list to a SmartList server is a completely seperate issue...one which Philip should probably weigh in on, since he is now maintaining the procmail/SmartList source and as such the de facto head of our band of merry wanderers... Charlie

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HTML troubles
by Violet 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Multipart/alternative/html/encoded woes ... I have my lists set up to block (reject) posts with HTML, but even this isn't really solving a whole lot of my problems, because people (mostly AOLers) continue to send messages in HTML and then wonder why they're not going through. Even though my reject message clearly states what the problem is and directs them to pages that have instructions for turning off the HTML in just about every mail program, every frickin' time AOL upgrades, it causes a whole new set of problems because the new program isn't on any of the instruction lists yet. So I'm wondering... is there any way [or can anyone here come up with a way] to make Smartlist simply convert any and all HTML/encoded messages to plain text? There has got to be *some* way to make that happen, doesn't there? I have other friends running mailing lists using other software programs and they've been able to do this, so it seems like Smartlist should be able to as well. The past few months a lot of my list members have taken to saying, "Smartlist isn't very smart, is it?" every time the program has difficulties handling particular types of messages. I just don't want to believe that because I'm sort of attached to it, but I must admit I'm starting to become more and more frustrated as times goes on. I swear I have just about every script possible in my various local and submit files, and I dunno..... It gets to a point where, when your whole program seems to be held together and controlled more by the spit-and-glue of numerous fixes than the basic program itself, you start wondering if the program you're using is the most efficient choice. If I had a wish list of things I'd change about Smartlist, the first thing would be to have some way to set it to strip HTML from messages. I think that should be a basic part of the program, because HTML encoding is one of the biggest problems facing most list owners these days. The second thing I'd change is the way the program cannot seem to interpret short messages with no subject line (or short subject lines) as posts, but flags them as "undecipherable" and sends out the help file. This is really annoying, and it happens all the time. A person on my list had a birthday today, and when someone attempted to send a message with the subject "30!" and a short note in the body wishing them a happy birthday, Smartlist bumped it and sent the help file. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to create a script to fix either thing myself. But I know several of you do, or know others who do, so I'm putting this out there in the hopes that someone here might be able to come up with something that could help. Violet xoxox

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logabstract entries
by Richard G. Ball 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

For most normal traffic the logabstract gets a Subject: line and a Folder: line (with choplist info in it) but no From: line. Messages to the request address and most error messages seem to get a From line. Why don't all messages get a From line in the logabstract? Is there any way at the rc.custom level to change this behaviour? Rich -- richard_ball(a)merck.com (I regret the presence of the legal disclaimer but I have no control over it) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. ==============================================================================

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Re:How to close a mailing list?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Charlie, thank you for your excellent suggestion. I just thought that since SmartList was providing the (deceased) list's functionality, the solution would have to involve SmartList also. Your solution is an excellent one, that I didn't see because of my tunnel vision. Thanks, again. -Kevin Zembower >>> Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> 03/19/03 01:56PM >>> At 1:36 PM -0500 3/19/03, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed: > I'd like to close a mailing list and have all posters receive a message >with a subject like "This mailing list has moved to foo(a)bar.com" and a more >expansive explanation in the body, followed by the body of their message. Why use SmartList for this at all? Close down the list, and set up a simple vacation message off of the aliases. (Or even send a 500-level error with the error message, "This list moved to foo@bar") Seems to me using SmartList for this is serious overkill. Charlie

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How to close a mailing list?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

I'd like to close a mailing list and have all posters receive a message with a subject like "This mailing list has moved to foo(a)bar.com" and a more expansive explanation in the body, followed by the body of their message. I tried to do this in rc.local.r00 (which is enabled): :0: | formail -rtk -I "Subject: This list has moved to foo(a)bar.org. Contact foo-master(a)bar.org with questions." This would have only changed the subject, but it didn't seem to work anyhow. I didn't find anything about this as an explicit FAQ, but I was trying to use the pattern of 4.8: "How to bounce messages with a certain word in the subject." I couldn't find a way of searching the archives of this list without downloading 5MB of traffic. Would anyone suggest a recipe which would do all this? Is this a good method in the first place to deal with a closed list? Are there any better ways of dealing with it? Thanks for your help and suggestions. -Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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(no subject)
by rcm2808＠bellsouth.net 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

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