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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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by rcm2808＠bellsouth.net 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

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Is it possible to run two choplists on the one dist file?
by Andrew Billinghurst 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

We run a very very very big mailing list (a newsletter) under SmartList and after 30 hours it is still the delivering mail. Now we have had to have choplist produce it in bite sized pieces (down to 25) as too many ISPs simply refuse it when trying to deliver to more than that. <sigh> I was wondering whether there was a way to have two choplist processes running on the same dist list, or to split the dist list and have two choplist processes run it. The server has heaps of spare load capacity to do this so that shouldn't be a limiting factor. Note that I am not much of a programmer but can muddle through an existing installation of SmartList to make do. :-) Regards, Andrew

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where to find scripts
by Linda Wack 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

I inadvertently deleted my archived version of the default digest script. My "improvements" to the script now result in a digest full of "Unidentified Subject" topic lines and no posts, so I would like to start over and try again. I looked through the documentation, but can't find any reference to a site that has the original Smartlist scripts. I have flush_digests working correctly, but was trying to modify the digest script to make it plain text and to include another line between posts to make it look better. Seems simple enough following the documentation, but I must have introduced a renegade character somewhere along the way and I'm having some trouble deciphering the log to reveal the problem. So I'd like to start over with the default script. thanks, Linda

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Re: FW: How to redirect bounced emails to /dev/null instead of moderator ?
by Martin MOKREJŠ 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Kapoor, Nishikant X wrote: > > At times, subscribers in my mailing list have their quota > > full (or their mail server is down, etc. etc.) and as a > > result, postings to their addresses bounce. All these bounced > > emails are then coming back to me since I am the moderator of > > the list. I am managing three moderated lists, each having > > 1000+ subscribers and so, these bounced emails are turning > > out to be quite overwhelming. > > > > Is there a way to redirect these bounced emails to /dev/null > > instead of moderator ? Install procmail o so that it is used when emails get's delivered to you and put into your $HOME/.procmailrc :0: * ^FROM_MAILER $HOME/mail/daemon.mbox :0: * ^MAIL_DEAMON $HOME/mail/daemon.mbox That will catch all of the bounced messages. But only those related to the lists. So add a line or two to the conditions to check they originated only from a list (note, you will have to check BODY of the mail for listnames). -- Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs(a)natur.cuni.cz>, <m.mokrejs(a)gsf.de> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585

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smartlist is not sending message to group
by Gordon Hollenbeck 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

I am trying to get a newsletter mailing list set up and there are some problems. Once I use my host's Control Panel to create a newsletter list and upload a new rc.custom file (using newlines as line terminators) and a new dist file (using newlines), SmartList fails to send the messages. It is currently set up so that only people on the accept list can send messages. But since no one is in that list, only the list administrator can send messages. If I send a message to the list using the admin's email address as mine, the message is send ONLY back to me (as the admin's address). No one else on the list receives the message. Has anyone experienced this problem before? Attached is my rc.custom (renamed) and dist. "I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure." Gordon Hollenbeck | Email: ghollenbeck(a)NOSPAMmurtos.com AKA: Thrawn / Jabber: gordon1986(a)jabber.com ICQ: 60306035 / MSN: ghollenbeck1986(a)NOSPAMhotmail.com ---------------+---------------------------------------- Phoenix Online Open Souce, 3D, MMORPG The Next Wave Looking for web host http://www.murtos.com/po/

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FW: How to redirect bounced emails to /dev/null instead of moderator ?
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

Sending it again hoping I will get some help this time... > -----Original Message----- > From: Kapoor, Nishikant X > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:29 AM > > At times, subscribers in my mailing list have their quota > full (or their mail server is down, etc. etc.) and as a > result, postings to their addresses bounce. All these bounced > emails are then coming back to me since I am the moderator of > the list. I am managing three moderated lists, each having > 1000+ subscribers and so, these bounced emails are turning > out to be quite overwhelming. > > Is there a way to redirect these bounced emails to /dev/null > instead of moderator ? > > Thanks > Nishi

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Message Approval
by Mitch Darer 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

I've been through the Manual & the FAQ, the parts on remote administration & mesage approval [on a moderated list] are confusing to me. Sorry. Simply, can I approve messages via an X-Command? I've used it for sub/unsub in the past, but not approving. All help appreciated. Thanks, Mitch -- 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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Approval/Redirect
by Mitch Darer 08 Mar '03

08 Mar '03

Thanks Charlie, yes I'm testing w/ an old NS, not sure that they have a "Redirect" function, merely a Forward. But that's ok, I'm only setting up the list & testing. I'll hand it over to the person who will take over moderating once it's all working. Now, here's the next question: He uses ' AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 45' [according to full header]. Does anyone know how to effect a 'Redirect' in that email sw ? Or some other/workaround that he could use to Approve msgs from that email sw. Thanks, Mitch -- 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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