December 2007 - 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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RE: Adding Subject Designation-Listname
by Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Found it! It wasn't a problem with the file, it was something with the list itself. Not sure what, but I finally just decided to delete the list and set it up again. Then everything worked just fine! Many happy users reporting back :) Thanks for your feedback. Happy Holidays! Linda -----Original Message----- From: smartlist-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:smartlist-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE] On Behalf Of Charlie Summers Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:48 PM To: Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell Cc: smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: RE: Adding Subject Designation-Listname At 6:42 PM -0500 12/22/07, Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell is rumored to have typed: > We do feel the subject line addition would be an advantage for others. I respectfully disagree (subject munging only aids those who do not understand their email client encouraging their ignorance, and annoys those users who spend the time learning how to effectively handle and filter their email), but never mind that now. Uncomment the rc.custom line in your test list: #VERBOSE=yes # uncomment in case of real emergency ...and then send that list a test message. Review your logfile (defaults to listdir/log, I think) carefully to see exactly what is happening. You clearly have an error somewhere (it could be as simple as a bad transfer between Windoze and un*x creating inadvertant line breaks at an inappropriate place), and tracing the progress of the email through the verbose log will help you find it. I'd probably add a LOG= line at the top and bottom of rc.local.s10 just to loudly mark entry and exit (I tend to laziness), but it shouldn't be necessary as the INCLUDERC will be noted. If you run into an error you aren't familiar with, feel free to post (inline, please, attachments are a pain in mailing lists) the relevant lines. Charlie

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RE: Adding Subject Designation-Listname
by Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Thank you, Charlie. This involves about 40 committee lists for one of our hosting clients/organizations. Since a number of the members are on multiple committees, it is an advantage to them in terms of email client filtering easily and quick visual designation as well. None have digests implemented. The Reply To field remains as default. We had already uncommented the line in rc.custom, and it still isn't working. We have about 5000 smartlists running at this time, and we appreciate the versatility and efficiency in general. We do feel the subject line addition would be an advantage for others. Thanks, Linda -----Original Message----- From: Charlie Summers [mailto:charlie@lofcom.com] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:40 AM To: Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell; smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re:Adding Subject Designation-Listname At 10:12 AM -0500 12/22/07, Khimaira ~ Linda Campbell is rumored to have typed: > We are attempting to add the listname to mailing lists on our servers. Yuck. Better to educate your users on how to filter their mail than to munge mail subjects. Especially if you have a digested list attached, it just looks...amaturish, and with modern email clients there's _never_ a good reason to do such. Lemme guess...you're also munging the Reply-To: header field? > Should there be other language in there?¬Ý What are we missing?¬Ý How can >we be sure that rc.local.s10 is even being called? The call is commented-out in rc.custom. Uncomment it. (The same goes for any other rc.local.???.) Strongly urge you to read through your rc.custom file so you understand a bit more about how SmartList works. Charlie

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smartlist debugging
by Dan - East Coast Technology 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

I am running RedHat enterprise server 4 and I am having difficulties getting smartlist to work. Procmail and Smartlist appear to have installed properly and I am able to create lists, however, when mailing to the list it does not send the email out. I've checked that email can be sent out the smartlist account and it works. I believe there is a mis-configuration somewhere, but I am unable to locate it. Has anyone actually been able to get this to work with enterprise 4? Daniel Butler East Coast Technology 209 Lower County Drive Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877 Phone: 301-751-8247 Email: dbutler(a)eastcoast-technology.com http://www.eastcoast-technology.com

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