August 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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procmail errors
by Jerry Sloan 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

I was purging the log for one of my lists this morning and saw this error procmail: Extraneous deliver-head flag ignored Any idea what is happening? -- Jerry Sloan <jerry(a)fptech.net> fP Technologies, Inc

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Broken MUAs, Pine and The Bat!
by Jim Osborn 16 Aug '03

16 Aug '03

Here's a FWIW: after a bit more poking around, I've confirmed that MUAs Pine on Linux and The Bat! on MSWindows confuse a long series of dashes with the ^--boundary--$ string that is the end of the digest. I've submitted a bug report to the Pine folks at the University of Washington, and maybe someday they'll fix it. One of my digest readers has submitted a report to The Bat! folks. In the meantime, I've added a workaround recipe to my digest's rc.local.s10 file that should prevent those buggy mailers from truncating my digests. # #Quote long dashed lines, for broken MUAs # :0 B * ^-------------------------------+ { MID=`formail -x Message-ID` LOG="article $MID: dashes escaped for broken MUAs " :0 fwb | sed 's/^-------------------------------/- &/' }

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Is Pine.LNX.4.44 known to mishandle digests?
by Jim Osborn 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

The other day I asked whether the digest boundary was escaped and of course the answer is yes, as one would expect. I was just sent an example of a truncated digest by a Linux Pine user, and sure enough, the digest seems to end right at some guy's signature that's preceded by a long string of dashes (too long to be taken for a boundary by a rigorous MUA). This would seem to implicate Pine in an embarrassing bug, and I thought I'd ask if anyone here knows for sure if Pine 4.44 (from the guy's Message-ID) is a known culprit. I'll scratch around and try to contact Pine developers, but in the meantime, this is sure a surprise. Jim

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Is boundary escaped in digest?
by Jim Osborn 11 Aug '03

11 Aug '03

Does Smartlist's digester escape a series of dashes of just the right length to be confused with the digest MIME boundary if an article happens to contain a line starting with such a series? I assume the answer is yes, as a misplaced boundary would wreak havoc with the digest, and Smartlist is pretty clever about most such things. I don't see this question addressed in the FAQ, so I hope it's ok to ask here before I plunge into the source. My question was inspired by a complaint from a subscriber to my digest, saying that "The Bat!" is confused by any series of dashes as long or longer than the boundary. Obviously such a series would be common, since it's used so often to introduce those popular advertizing footers in the free mailers. I'd prefer to respond to this guy knowing the facts. TIA, Jim

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new confirm package
by Werner Reisberger 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

The new confirm version 1.3.2 is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist Werner

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