Smartlist September 2004

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10 discussions

by Kapoor, Nishikant X

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

6 years, 1 month

Archive egrep

by Alan Northam

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,

6 years, 1 month

modify the subscribe/unsubscribe-mail

by Martin M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=ller

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

6 years, 1 month

Archives?

by Mitchell Darer

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)

6 years, 1 month

Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?

by Charlie Summers

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

6 years, 1 month

Any noticed that Procmail 3.22 breaks X-Commands?

by Andrew Billinghurst

Ages ago when the server that I use was upgraded the X-Commands by email stopped working As there was also webtools available, I played and had general looks around and never got around to finding the cause. Anyway, I have finally tracked it down to ver 3.22 of procmail being the culprit (I stuck in symlink to an earlier version and it worked). I was wondering whether anyone else had the same problem (otherwise it may just be the local build of procmail). Or if anyone does have email X-Commands working with a procmail build of 3.22. Thanks. Regards, Andrew

19 years, 11 months

Re: [SmartList] Re: faked from addresses getting through to my lists - problem and poss solution?

by Phillip Sego

I've been dealing with this for a few months on a number of lists I manage, as the Bagle virus picks up from lines from received emails on infected computers. From the pattern, it doesn't seem to be an intentional attack against listserves, it's just another #*!&^ virus. My lists are newsletter-type (with a few approved posters on each). Outlook and Outlook Express, in use by most folks, can't add custom headers. The "Organization" field is now rarely used by folks. Therefore, if I can get smartlist to look at this header field AND have the approved posters use, e.g. the organization "1234", I can have only approved posts get thru my lists. But I'm not a programmer. I simply bludgeon smartlist into submission, which is preety easy due to the many easy-to-change parameters. Here's what I came up with: Filename: rc.local.20 -------- cut here --------- HEAD=`formail -zx Organization:` # extract the header information :0fw * ^Organization:.*\[1234]\ -------- cut here --------- Alas... it doesn't work. All posts go thru regardless of the contents of the Organization field. Any ideas? -- Phil > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:42:32PM -0500, rgball wrote: > > >1) go through all the list's archives and match information in the > bottom-most Received: line to > >the subscriber's address. Keep all of this in a database (not the dist > file). > > Can't rely on that. Received: lines can be faked, as long as they're > below the point of injection into the system. > > If there's spoofing going on, the spoofers are presumably motivated to > keep it happening. > > You could just rely on a valid PGP signature before passing on the > message. But there are very few lists that do this, in large part > because most people find PGP too hard to use. > > >It's still not going to be proof against a determined spoofer but should > eliminate the casual > >spammers. > > I first saw spam with fake Received: header lines some time around 1997. > > Roger >

20 years

when is the accept list read/processed? (spam problem)

by Kim Ridenour

I am having trouble with a SmartList being used to send SPAM to list recipients. I have the rc.custom file set up to reject foreign submissions. A single, authorized address in the accept file (ex: webmaster(a)mylist.com). My entire 60,000 member list just received a mailing from someone who apparently set up the authorized address, webmaster(a)mylist.com, on their own machine, then used it to send an email with attached virus. Would it be possible to avoid this problem in the future by sending a message to the list, then immediately removing the authorized "send" address from the accept file? >From the "request" record, it appears that the accept list is only read when the message is sent (not at each iteration of the call to flist.) Is this correct? If so, it seems that I could prevent spoofing by de-authorizing all senders immediately after sending a legitimate message. Thanks for your help, or any other advice you may have. Kim R

20 years

Re: problem with SmartList and FormMail

by Richard A. DeMattia

You might try putting the new subscriber's address in the subject of the email message: Subject: subscriber newperson(a)new.host and see if that suffices. -- Rick DeMattia <rad(a)nshore.org> The secret of the universe is|^&*||x|NO CARRIER

20 years

problem with SmartList and FormMail

by Parker Abercrombie

Hello, I'm having a problem using SmartList with FormMail. I have a web form that prompts for an email address, then generates a message to the newsletter subscribe address, with subject "subscribe", from the address that the user entered. The problem is that it doesn't work. No user visible error is generated, but in the message mailed to the list admin there are header lines X-Diagnostic: Already on the subscriber list X-Diagnostic: 752 listadmin(a)ourdomain.com 32744 listadmin(a)ourdomain.com In the SmartList log I see From listadmin(a)ourdomain.com Tue Aug 31 19:29:47 2004 Subject: subscribe Folder: formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRe 1190 It looks like SmartList thinks that the message is sent from the admin's address, and discards it since that address is already on the list, even though the "from" header is set to the new address. Sending a subscribe message from a mail client works, so the list software seems to be set up correctly. The web form is configured correctly as far as I can tell, and does put the email into the "from" header. I'm at a loss to understand why SmartList thinks these message are coming from the admin address. Any ideas? Thanks -- Parker Abercrombie <parkera AT cs.ucsb.edu>

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Smartlist September 2004