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
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
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E. Kevin Zembower
Unix Administrator
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-659-6139
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
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
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).
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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.
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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
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
--
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The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977
http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222, fax(845) 678-2276
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
--
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The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977
http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222, fax(845) 678-2276