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Subscription email OFF?
by Hitesh Aidasani 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hello, Our non-profit organization is using Smartlist to manage its mailing lists for press contacts, donors, etc.. We have a web interface that lets the individual managers add/remove people from their mailing lists, but I was wondering if there was a way to turn the "you have been subscribed to so&so list" off. Instead of using outlook to manage sending emails out, I set up smartlist mailing lists for obvious reasons. They are complaining to me now that they do not want the recipient receiving an email if they are added to the list. Any help would be much appreciated -Hitesh Aidasani Asian Americans for Equality hitesh(a)aafe.org

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Welcome Message Bounced
by Bruce Vander Werf 15 May '02

15 May '02

We have been having trouble with one particular subscriber. This person can use their e-mail address fine anywhere else, but not with our mailing list. In this particular case, the welcome message sent from the list to this person bounced. Here are the header lines: ===== X-Diagnostic: Mail to xxx(a)skyenet.net bounced 8 times X-Diagnostic: Bounces exceed threshold of 4 X-Diagnostic: Removed: xxx(a)skyenet.net 32746 X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored X-Diagnostic: Possible loopback problem ===== Here is a portion of the body of the message: ===== The original message was received at Tue, 14 May 2002 20:49:25 -0400 from brucev@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- xxx(a)skyenet.net (reason: 550 5.7.1 Mail from 209.239.35.21 refused by blackhole site bl.spamcop.net) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- .... while talking to mf02.hypervine.net.: >>> MAIL From:<tlcc-list-request(a)trilakes.org> <<< 550 5.7.1 Mail from 209.239.35.21 refused by blackhole site bl.spamcop.net 554 5.0.0 xxx(a)skyenet.net... Service unavailable-- ===== What is going on here? --Bruce

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"Mail coming from a daemon"
by Bruce Vander Werf 15 May '02

15 May '02

What does the following header line mean? X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored I'm having trouble subscribing a particular person to the list from a web interface provided by my web provider, and this is appearing in the header of the message sent back to the list administrator. Also, is there a particular reason why I need to look in the mail header for specifics of why something has gone awry? Couldn't this information be reported in a more user-friendly manner in the message body? -- Bruce Vander Werf brucev(a)cyberlink.com

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Clarifying the term "uncomment"
by Kristie Torres 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hi, new user here...and I just want to know if someone can tell me what "uncomment means. I'm reading this: <<In your rc.custom file, uncomment the line that reads "RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_10 = rc.local.s10", and make a file called "rc.local.s10" in your list directory, in that file put this: ---- Cut Here ---- SUBJ=`formail -zx Subject:` # extract the subject :0fw * ! ^Subject:.*\[listname\] * ! ^Subject:.Re: * | formmail -I "Subject: [listname] $SUBJ" ---- End Here ---- Be sure to replace "[listname]" with what you would like to be at the beginning of the subject line.>> And I am just not totally sure what the word "uncomment" means in this situation.Do I remove the lower case text rc.local.s10 from the custom file or what? I'm just so confused. HELP PLEASE! K.Torres

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spam sent to maintainer
by Werner Reisberger 01 May '02

01 May '02

Many list admins probably have the problem of spam sent to the request and the mailling list address and forwarded later to the maintainer address. To make things worse the standard SmartList installation will send a help message or a "You are not a member of this list" message to the nonexistent spam address which leads to bounces - again forwarded to the maintainer. To silently delete most of the spam sent to my mailing list addresses I extended the rc.local.s00 recipe hook which I am using now to sort out certain mail e.g. with attachments or sent as html. The recipe sorted out the mail very well but sent a message to the maintainer and the sender even if it was pure spam. I modified it to check before if the sender is on the accept list(s). If not, the message is silently dumped to /dev/null. Since most of the spam is sent as html and/or with attachments the spams sent to the maintainer have stopped almost completely. The drawback of this solution is, that if a non member wanting to contribute to the list with a mail attachment he won't get any hint that he has to subscribe before posting. You can find the modified rc.local.s00 recipes attached. To block the forwarding of spam sent to the request address I am going to use the following recipe in rc.local.r30: :0 * !^X-Diagnostic: Already on the subscriber list * > 4096 /dev/null I haven't tested it in production but I am confident that it will sort out all remaining spam. It could create problems if peoples are trying to (un)subscribe with messages larger than 4k which I haven't experienced yet as far as I remember. Werner

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Ack - I messed up!
by Teresa Feral 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi - people have been helping me setup my mailing list and I appreciate all the help. I've done as muchas I can with the FAQ and smart list manual but I am stuck and have a bunch of digest people freaking out because they cannot post to the list. I have a list with both regular mail and digest mail. I have setup the accept2 file and placed it in the digests folder. How do I tell the program to look in there, too, for people allowed to post? I tried manually adding people to the accept file in the regular mail folder, but that caused MUCH chaos as it started sending regular mail to those people :( Any ideas on what to edit to make it find accept2 would help greatly, I can't seem to get any farther with the manual or FAQ. Thanks!!!!!!! Teresa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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How to easily switch between (non)digested list?
by Gyelt Tuinstra 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi, Can anyone please give me a pointer or example: I would like my non-technical list-subscribers to be able to easily switch between a normal and a digested list. So that when they subscribe to one, while already subscribed to the other, the original subscription is (silently) removed. I didn't find a reference on how to do this in the manual or faq. Is there a reason that I shouldn't want to do this? Next-best solution would be to implement an extra "switch" command, may be... Is there a way to do this, without a lot of editing of the sources? Gyelt -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~gyelt/ergo/index.html about Dutch occupational therapy

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Help if possible :)
by Teresa Feral 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi I am having a lot of problems changing some stuff on my mailing list. I can find the lines that need to be edited, but I am not sure whether I am commenting or uncommenting (some have one #, others have ## - not sure which is which) I've read over the manual, and I followed the steps to do the following things, but they don't seem to be working. If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. I'm trying to add the name of the list to the Subject line, having replies sent to the list instead of the sender, eliminating attachments and HTML, and having the digest come out at a regular interval (I had 5 sent out on the first day with a range of 2-18 messages!) Thanks in advance :) Teresa --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness

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form
by Pärlan Fritz/LivsHälsa 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Dear List, I am new member to the list and I have a basic question to you about creating a form on my website. I want to offer my visitors to be able to subscribe themselves to a newsletter and also to be able to unsubscribe. What code can I use for this? DATA To subscribe you send an e-mail to: name-request(a)domain.com Subject: subscribe To unsubscribe you send an e-mail to: name(a)domain.com Subject: unsubscribe I am grateful for your help. Kind regards, Fritz

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Klez worm forging moderator's address?
by KEVIN ZEMBOWER 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I'm not sure if this is really what's happening or not, but thought I would ask if anyone else is seeing this. I have a couple of lists using SmartList which are announcement-type lists. Only the moderator is allowed to post to them. Today, one of the moderators asked if his announcement was sent out twice last week. The mail logs showed two receipts from his address to the email list's address. One was from our mail system, but another was from a system I didn't recognize. Since both were from him (had his email address in the From: field), the message was sent out twice. The second one could have possibly contained a virus, since the message size was about 1700 bytes larger than the first. My questions: 1.) Is this a possible scenario with SmartList? I can't think of any reason why this wouldn't work. 2.) Is there any protection to avoid this? I can't think of any setting to make the system reject messages from the moderator which DON'T come from a particular mail system. Is there any other way? Moderator must approve his own posts? Thanks for your help with this. I scanned the threads for the last two months on this forum, but didn't see anything that I thought would pertain to this. Please forgive me if I overlooked it and you point it out to me. -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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