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need help with regex recipe...
by Paul Thomas 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

for some of my smartlists, i have been using the following to put the listname in the Subject. however, strange things happen from time to time and i believe it is due to people inserting manually 'Re: ' and 'Re: [listname]'. :0wfh * $!^Subject: *(re:[ ]*)?\[$list\] * ^Subject: \/.* | formail -I"Subject: [$list] $MATCH" is: * $!^Subject: *(re:[ ]*)?\[$list\] really a better way to go than something like: * $!^Subject: *Re:.[$list\] to be honest, i lost track of just exactly what * $!^Subject: *(re:[ ]*)?\[$list\] is doing. any comments would be appreciated. thanks, --paul --

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Re: need help with Red Hat installation
by Philip Guenther 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

pegmgr(a)cgfs.com writes: >Hmmm. I've been running into the same problem with Redhat 7.2 . > >My /etc/smrsh is definitely pointing to the correct flist. ... Are we 100% sure that smrsh is looking in /etc/smrsh for the programs it runs? What does strings /path/to/smrsh/binary | grep /sm On the only redhat system I have handy, I find: callisto% cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) callisto% strings /usr/sbin/smrsh | grep /sm /usr/adm/sm.bin callisto% Philip Guenther

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Dumb Newbie
by John Hake 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

I had a mailing list up and running but ran into some difficulties because I didn't handle the foreign_submit line correctly. I deleted all the mailing lists from the control panel and tried to start over. My mail directory showed no files however when I reconstructed the list using the same list name and did a test subscription I had the last seven issues of my newsletter returned to me. There must be some files lurking somewhere that I can't find. My host does not offer tech support for listserve and I can't find anything about this in the manuals. Can anyone help?

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bounce processing problems
by Kim Ridenour 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

I am testing the bounce/remove function and have a problem I can't figure out. I have got a combination of test addresses in the dist file. Some are valid, some are not. When I send a message to the list, only one bad address is removed from dist. The others generate a "returned mail" error in log/request, but the bad address stays in the dist file. In rc.custom, I have minbounce = 1, auto_off_threshold = $loose I also have no value for maintainer because I prefer that these messages be delivered to the request file instead of to me. (I get the same results with maintainer = [a value] and different combinations of minbounce and threshold. If maintainer = my email, I have the same problem with the dist file, but I do get the returned email, error=550 "user unknown.") All these bounced messages come from MAILER-DAEMON(a)domain.com The first remove is always accepted, all subsequent removes have daemon complaints ... possibly a response from the attempt to deliver a "you have been removed" message to a non-existent address? Frankly, I have no clue what is happening here. The first entry in the log is always this, and it removes the bad address from dist: procmail: Executing "procbounce" procbounce: Removed: bademail(a)domain.com A message is sent to this bad email address, advising that the bad email has been removed from the list. Then ... All successive entries after this first successful "remove" look like this: procmail: Executing "formail,-A,X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored" procmail: Match on "^X-Loop: ()mylist(a)mydomain\.com" procmail: Executing "formail,-A,X-Diagnostic: Possible loopback problem" procmail: No match on ! "^X-(Diagnostic|Processed):" procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=" procmail: No match on ! "^X-(Diagnostic|Processed):" procmail: Executing "formail,-AX-Envelope-To: mylist-request" procmail: No match on ! "." procmail: Assigning "fOPT=-fslist(a)mydomain.com" procmail: Executing " formail -R"From X-From_:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-To: -iRead-Receipt-To: \ -iAcknowledge-To: | \ $SENDMAIL $fOPT $sendmailOPTnorm $sendmailOPTp $maintainer" I'm using procmail v 3.21 SmartList 3.15 Something is augwiedered here, and I don't know how to fix it. I appreciate whatever guidance you can provide. Thanks, Kim

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blocking a reply
by O'Rourke, Tom (CTR) 27 Jan '02

27 Jan '02

Greetings, Is it possible to block the reply of certain individuals from being distributed to a mailing list? Their accounts have been removed and it is only possible for certain people to post to the list. However, neither one of these options eliminates the possibility of these unwanted individuals from responding. Thanks in advance. Tom O'Rourke

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need help with Red Hat installation
by Kim Ridenour 25 Jan '02

25 Jan '02

I've installed SmartList on RedHat Linux 7.1 Procmail v 3.21 I've put an flist symlink into /etc/smrsh, I've adjusted /etc/aliases to read: testing: "|flist testing" testing-request: "|flist testing-request" When any mail gets sent to testing or testing-request the following message is sent: flist: no sequence specified or Unseen-Sequence profile entry found 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 Can anyone help me resolve this? Thanks! Kim

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re:spam again
by Jerry Sloan 21 Jan '02

21 Jan '02

Good Morning, I run a list for our tech support department that sends an auto-reply to the original sender. My problem is this e-mail address gets a boatload of spam. But when the messages come through smartlist has stripped the original message headers. Is there any way to keep the original message headers so that I can use them to block spam? Thanks in advance for any help Jerry Sloan Network/System Admin fP Technologies, Inc -- "Let us take care that age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face." Michel de Montaigne

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Re: NDN: Re: Those darn autoresponders...
by Paul Thomas 20 Jan '02

20 Jan '02

Ha ha, speak of misconfigured autoresponders, look what I just got in my email box after posting to the list: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Mailer-Daemon wrote: > Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: > > paonia,Mass College Art (The name was not found at the remote site. Check > that the name has been entered correctly.) Be careful out there! --paul CueMan -- http://www.cuenet.com Info(a)cuenet.com -= At the speed of the Internet =-

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Those darn autoresponders...
by Paul Thomas 19 Jan '02

19 Jan '02

Howdy, I know this subject has been visited before but.... Has anyone come up with any heuristics that procmail can use to determine that a message to a mailing list from a poorly configured autoresponder (the message appears to come from an individual and does not include headers from daemons, proper Precendence: , etc) and prevent it from creating an infinite loop with the mailing list? I realize people who can't properly setup an autoresponder have no business using one and should be publicly humiliated at their local soccer stadium, however this is not an option available to me. Cheers, --Paul T. Cueman -- http://www.cuenet.com Info(a)cuenet.com -= At the speed of the Internet =-

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spam
by Jerry Sloan 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Good Morning, I run a list for our tech support department that sends an auto-reply to the original sender. My problem is this e-mail address gets a boatload of spam. But when the messages come through smartlist has stripped the original message headers. Is there any way to keep the original message headers so that I can use them to block spam? Thanks in advance for any help Jerry Sloan Network/System Admin fP Technologies, Inc -- "Let us take care that age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face." Michel de Montaigne

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