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subscription probes
by Richard G. Ball 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

A while ago we had an on-list discussion about subscription probes for smartlist but I don't recall anyone posting a full drop-in set of scripts. One of the admins for a list I host has asked if I can put such a function in place and she'd like the probe to require an acive confirmation from the subscriber that the subscription is to continue (as opposed to the probe that does nothing unless the message bounces). Does anyone have such a script(s) they'd be willing to share? Rich -- richard_ball(a)merck.com (I regret the presence of the legal disclaimer but I have no control over it) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. ==============================================================================

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Problem with moderate package
by Giorgio Demenego 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

I all, last week I began to move one list to another server (from SUSE 6.4 to Redhat 7.2). Smartlist works good as usual, but the moderate package doesn't work, please what's wrong ? This is the error when I try to send a mail to the list: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|mod-if ifmlist" (reason: 255) (expanded from: ifmlist(a)my-domain.com) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- syntax error at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 193, near "my " Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 193. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 340. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 341. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 362. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 376. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 394. Global symbol "$domain" requires explicit package name at /etc/smrsh/mod-if line 398. Execution of /etc/smrsh/mod-if aborted due to compilation errors. 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 255 Line 193 is: my $domain = "my-domain.com"; Any good idea ? Thanks in advance Giorgio

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Where is moderate ?
by Francois Sauterey 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

I use the moderate addon downloaded from http://www.mjolner.com/~lbr/moderate/ But, looking for a new version, I found a 404 error page ;~{ So, where is moderate, now ? Francois -- "Quelle Connerie la guerre" (J. Prevert) Francois Sauterey mailto:Francois@sauterey.org Mon hébergeur ? http://www.ras.eu.org

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confirm 1.3.0
by Werner Reisberger 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

Version 1.3.0 of confirm has been released and is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist confirm is an addon to SmartList to verify and confirm (un)subscriptions. Werner

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Re: Help interpreting two error messages: NOQUEUE:SYSERR andAuthentication-Warning
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Martin, thanks for your suggestion. On the SuSE 8.0 system I'm running, /etc/sendmail.cf is built automatically from /etc/sysconfig/mail and /etc/sysconfig/sendmail. Neither of these seems to have any variable with regard to Max Recipients Per Message. However, the MaxRecipientsPerMessage line in my /etc/sendmail.cf is identical to the one you quoted. Thanks for your suggestion. I have to wait until Monday to see if the changes I made to rc.init will prevent my problem or not. I changed minnames to 16 from the default 32, and maxnames from 64 to 32. I suspect that I only had to change maxnames, but there seemed to be a relationship between these numbers that I wanted to preserve. This is a once-weekly post, going out to only 1188 subscribers, so this change shouldn't put too much additional load on the machine. -Kevin >>> Martin MOKREJŠ <mmokrejs(a)natur.cuni.cz> 11/14/02 05:25AM >>> On 13 Nov 2002, Tim Yohn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:29, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > > > > One unusual entry in the mail logs came just after the posting was received at the mailinglist's address: > > Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[511]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long > > Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[510]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Hi, you've set # maximum number of recipients per SMTP envelope #O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=100 to very low value. Leave default value 100 in. Setting this value low doesn't help you against the spam anyway. ;) -- 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 _______________________________________________ Smartlist mailing list Smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/smartlist

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Help interpreting two error messages: NOQUEUE:SYSERR and Authentication-Warning
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Recently one of my SmartList mailinglists behaved strangely. On a weekly, announcement-type list, one posting did not get sent to my own organization. Subscribers at my organization make up 24 of the 1188 total subscribers to the list. I can't find any evidence in the mail log that the posting was even attempted to my organization. However, bounce messages got through normally to the list's owner at this same address. One unusual entry in the mail logs came just after the posting was received at the mailinglist's address: Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[511]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[510]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[509]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[512]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[513]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(slist): Arguments too long Nov 11 12:37:39 mailinglists sendmail[514]: gABHbd2w000514: Authentication-Warning: mailinglists.jhuccp.org: slist set sender to popreporter-request(a)mailinglists.jhuccp.org using -f Can anyone help me understand these two different error messages, and whether they could be connected to this problem? Are there any ways to modify SmartList or sendmail to correct this problem? I searched my sendmail book, the SmartList FAQ and Google on these terms, but came up empty. Thanks for your help. -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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multigram fuzzy matching
by Werner Reisberger 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

It seems to me there is no way to get a 100% match with multigram. Example if the dist file contains the address "user(a)some.domain": echo 'user(a)some.domain'|/var/list/.bin/multigram -b1 dist gives "user(a)some.domain 32760 user(a)some.domain" and echo '=user(a)some.domain'|/var/list/.bin/multigram -b1 -l32760 dist gives the same result although the addresses are different and =user(a)some.domain is a valid address. That's rather a bug than a feture and makes it impossible to use multigram if you want to have exact matches. Werner

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new confirm addon
by Werner Reisberger 03 Nov '02

03 Nov '02

The new confirm addon for SmartList is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/confirm-1.2.7.tar.gz confirm is used to confirm un/subscriptions to a SmartList list therefore preventing the malicious un/subscription of email addresses and ensuring that only working addresses are added to the list. The new addon was necessary to fix a bug in the unsubscription feature. A non member was able to unsubscribe a list member without his consent. Without the confirm addon (non) list members are also able to unsubscribe list members but confirm should prevent this of course. You are strongly encouraged to upgrade if you use confirm for the control of unsubscriptions. Werner

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Duplicate key found error
by 'ö-Dzin Tridral 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Dear all, I have one member of the list whose submissions are being quietly dropped - nothing they send gets through. The log shows a 'Duplicate key found' error: Receipt-To: -iRea 2873 formail: Duplicate key found:<3DB081F8.46BEE45D(a)ntlworld.com> formail: Duplicate key found:<3DB084CA.DD3F75A7(a)ntlworld.com> >From xxxx(a)xxxx.fsnet.co.uk Sat Oct 19 11:39:25 2002 Subject: Test Folder: formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRea 2257 I got them to send the message to me too, and the headers are below: X-Apparently-To: tridral(a)yahoo.com via 216.136.226.176; 19 Oct 2002 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <xxxx(a)xxxx.fsnet.co.uk> Received: from 195.92.193.211 (EHLO cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk) (195.92.193.211) by mta537.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Oct 2002 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem-2863.antelope.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.27.47] helo=computer) by cmailm4.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 182vhE-000538-00; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 16:39:24 +0100 Message-ID: <001b01c27785$7598d060$2f1b86d9@computer> From: "xxxxxx xxxx" <xxxx(a)xxxx.fsnet.co.uk> To: <xxx-xxx-xx(a)xxxxxx.xxx> Subject: Test Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 16:35:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0010_01C2778D.98921600" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Content-Length: 538 Could you help me diagnose why the error occurs? many thanks 'o-Dzin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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smartlist und hypermail
by Andreas Hornig 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

hi *, ich haette da mal 'ne ganz doofe frage: hat jemand von euch schonmal hypermail zusammen mit hypermail laufen lassen? mein problem: hypermail erwartet eine einzige datei, in der alle mails drinstehen (standard mailbox format), smartlist legt ja aber bekanntlich pro mail eine eigene datei an. ich hatte auch schon einen weiteren eintrag in der aliases angelegt, so dass die mail an smartlist und in eine mailbox geschrieben wird. leider gehen hierbei alle mails in die mailbox, egal ob der sender 'subscribed' ist oder nicht. falls mir jemand helfen kann binn ich sehr dankbar. gruss andreas

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