April 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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Messages sent to the maintainer
by Sylvain Fauvel 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Hello, I have been using SmartList for years without any problems. Recently i have a list that works fine for most users but one cause problems. The messages is not sent to members of the list but to the maintainer of the list. I get the following line in the message and the equivalent in syslog. X-Authentication-Warning: host.mydomain.ca: slist set sender to <username> using -f This would be OK if <username> was the name of the list as usual but instead it is the name of the user that maintain the list. Anyone have a hint for me. Sylvain

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bug with certain addresses
by Werner Reisberger 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

While my first message on this issue waits for approval from the mailing list admin (don't know why) I send a second solution for the bug with addresses like foo(a)is.not.so.com or alex(a)wait.change.ti. Such addresses cannot be subscribed because the following line in rc.request matches if the subject line contains "subscribe alex(a)wait.change.ti". * -100^0 ^Subject:(.*[^a-z])?(Re:|erro|change|problem|((can)?not|.*n't)\>) I would suggest to modify the third condition line of the recipe * 100^0 ^Subject:[ ]*archive to * 100^0 ^Subject:[ ]*(archive|(un)?subscribe) My first solution (which could be come late if the list admin is on holidays) suggested to modify the first regex in brackets of the first condition line, removing the .* greedy regex, but this would weaken the filtering capabilities for non administrative messages. Werner

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using multigram in rc.locals
by Jim Osborn 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

I've got some recipes that I'd like to know if we're dealing with a list subscriber, so using multigram comes to mind. The only multigram documentation I find is in the manual, section 6. "Multigram and the thresholds in rc.init/rc.custom" which gives one example of calling multigram, and a brief description of its output. Is there any other "man multigram" sort of documentation I should be looking for? Looking in the source for multigram.c, I see some documentation output from a case statement, which looks like clues as to the options, so that's a possibility for understanding the invocation. For understanding the output, it'd be nice to run multigram on my home machine. I have the Smartlist sources, but I haven't done a real install at home, because I run Smartlist on my ISP's server. Typing cc multigram.c gives lots of errors regarding missing includes and such, so my next question is, is it possible to play with multigram without doing a full Smartlist install? I don't see a makefile anywhere in the sources, but maybe one is generated by the install.sh scripts. I can probably use egrep to do what I need to do in my rc.locals. Am I wasting my time trying to learn enough about multigram to use it? Do I need to use egrep to use the output of multigram anyway? Or does it produce a true/false exit status that I can use directly in a procmail recipe? Of course, there's the example in Smartlist's rc.submit; I can copy it and hope for the best, but I'd prefer to understand a bit more of what's really going on. I hate to do much testing on my real list without some beta work offline at home. FWIW, my ISP uses the ancient procmail 3.10 and its Smartlist. The manual section 6 seems to be identical for procmail 3.13/SL. TIA, Jim

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loop detection by message content...
by Marco Gaiarin 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

We got a strange attack from a nasty server that have set tons of messages with different mesageid but the same body. Someone have built a loop detection based of an (md5?!) hash of the body, or some sort of quota based on site?! Thanks. -- Le parti si impegnano [...] ad astenersi nelle relazioni internazionali dalla minaccia o dall'uso della forza in ogni modo in contrasto con gli scopi delle Nazioni Unite. (art.1 Trattato NATO)

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Subject prefix-ing not always working
by Mitch Darer 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi: Per FAQ 8.3, adding text to the Subject of list messages [which I've always used succesfully in the past] via rc.local.s20 [see way below]: On the most recent list I've set up, some messages contain this text and some DO NOT. Both senders are on dist, I don't think I see any differences in the headers, and I can't figure out what makes one different from the other. Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any suggestions for what I might look into to resolve? Thanks, Mitch ------------------------------------------ SUBJ=`formail -zx Subject:` # extract the subject :0fw * ! Subject:.*\[Focusing, Contemplative Practices and Spiritual Paths\] * ! Subject:.Re: * | formail -I "Subject: [Focusing, Contemplative Practices and Spiritual Paths] $SUBJ" # # Appending a footer to every outgoing mail: # :0 fbw | cat - footer.txt ---------------------------------------- Mitchell Darer, Systems Support / List Manager, mitch(a)focusing.org The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977 http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222, fax(845) 678-2276

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