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RE: Loading a list of email addresses and performance
by Austad, Jay 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

Will choplist still work with Exim? > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Burton West [mailto:roger@firedrake.org] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:26 PM > To: 'smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE' > Subject: Re: Loading a list of email addresses and performance > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:05:10PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > >I'm planning on converting from ezmlm to Smartlist. How do > I go about > >loading a text file of addresses into the list database? > With ezmlm, I > >can just do: cat addresses.txt | xargs ezmlm-sub ~/DIR > >Is it something similar with Smartlist? > > cat addresses.txt >>~list/LISTNAME/dist > > >Also, what email server does everyone recommend for maximum > >performance? > > I like Exim; there are convenient recipes to avoid all that > mucking about with aliases files, and in my experience it's > an excellent high-performance mailer. (I recommend looking at > the exim-users archives at www.exim.org; there are quite a > few people using Exim in intense mailing-list > environments.) > > Nobody seems to have a solid performance comparison; it's too > dependent on other factors. > > Roger > _______________________________________________ > Smartlist mailing list > Smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > http://MailMan.RWTH-> Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/smartlist >

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Does SmartList support multiple 'maintainer=' lines?
by Patrick Salsbury 22 Oct '01

22 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, all. I've got one that doesn't seem to be in the FAQ... (http://www.hardlink.com/Support/Smartlist/) I was trying to set up a list that was going to be maintained by myself and another, novice user. In rc.custom, I put the following: maintainer = salsbury(a)sculptors.com maintainer = otheruser(a)their.domain When I was trying to use the 'doxcommand' script (customized for this list and password, using my name as maintainer) it didn't seem to want to mail me the dist file. However, when I went in and commented out the second entry, it sent the file without complaint. On the topic of complaint, during the first two times (run from two different machines, to make sure it wasn't freaking out based on where the mail was coming from), I saw the following error messages. It appears to think that it processed the request, but I never got a copy. Here's an excerpt from the list's "log" file: procmail: Extraneous deliver-head flag ignored - From salsbury(a)bucky.sculptors.com Mon Oct 22 02:20:14 2001 Subject: X-Processed: showdist of <newlist-request(a)sculptors.com> Folder: formail -R"From X-Envelope-From:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-T 730 procmail: Extraneous deliver-head flag ignored - From salsbury(a)bootstrap.sculptors.com Mon Oct 22 02:26:57 2001 Subject: X-Processed: showdist of <newlist-request(a)sculptors.com> Folder: formail -R"From X-Envelope-From:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-T 983 When I commented the second 'maintainer=' line out, the file *did* deliver to me, yet I saw the same message in the log. procmail: Extraneous deliver-head flag ignored - From salsbury(a)bootstrap.sculptors.com Mon Oct 22 02:28:06 2001 Subject: X-Processed: showdist of <newlist-request(a)sculptors.com> Folder: formail -R"From X-Envelope-From:" -iDate: -iReturn-Receipt-T 3671 So I guess the bonus question is: What's that error message mean? Should I be concerned? (Note also the seeming discrepancy between the file sizes. The third one is much closer to the size of the 'dist' file.) Thirdly, in looking at /var/log/maillog, I've discovered that those first two attempts seem to have, in actuality, delivered *something*, but they delivered it to the other (2nd) maintainer! Only when I commented that line out did I get a message, so it appears to go with the last "maintainer=" line. In light of that, I guess the answer to my question of: "Does SmartList support multiple 'maintainer=' lines?" is a simple "No." But the next question is: "Why not? And is there any way to get it to do this? Thanks for your attention and any insight you may have... - -- Pat ___________________Think For Yourself____________________ Patrick G. Salsbury - http://reality.sculptors.com/~salsbury/ The Reality Sculptors FAQ-O-Matic is online at: http://reality.sculptors.com/cgi-bin/fom --------------------------------------------------------- On every question of construction of the Constitution let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. -- Thomas Jefferson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.2 Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iQA/AwUBO9PuN4JkhJBJYtPQEQJpYgCeMHVEkTeb/2jaAf6LHibqt57s0YMAn2cD geHMT7+M4qJybBXseIvJZkdm =gKGr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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announcement list: how control order that smartlist sends emails?
by john＠obz.co.za 21 Oct '01

21 Oct '01

Hello, Anyone know how to control the order by with Smartlist sends the emails contained within its announcement list? At the moment, my announcement list seems to send alphabetically, by domain. E.g First it sends address(a)domain.ac then address(a)domain.co.* etc I would like to personally received mail first and last; thus I'd know when the server began sending mail and when it completed sending to the list. TIA Howard

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linux as a mailgateway for lotus r5
by Tarique Ansari 20 Oct '01

20 Oct '01

Hi all, i have a linux 7.1 professional edition installed on one of my intel based machine which is acting as a mailgateway for lotus r5.i am using procmail as mta . but the problem is i have to maintain two address book.one is on lotus server and one is on linux. is there any way to configure my linux machine to just pass mail to lotus r5 and let lotus do all distribution to their mailboxes. -- Warm Regards Tarique Ansari Executive - Customer Support --

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Bounces not unsubscribing
by Thom Byxbe 17 Oct '01

17 Oct '01

Having a problem with bounces not un subscribing... Not sure where to look... I am getting these X-Diagnostic: lines back if that helps... Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail Old-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:23:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20011017032328.EPRT450.bnfep03(a)bnfep03.boone.winstar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; Boundary="===========================_ _= 1701660(450)1003289008" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored X-Diagnostic: Possible loopback problem ************* Thom Byxbe Byxbe(a)WorkBench.Net 248.661.8005 - Voice 209.755.8353 - Fax/Voice Mail ************* "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" - Thomas A. Edison

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Re: SmartList and virus concern
by Stan Goodman 15 Oct '01

15 Oct '01

** Reply to message from Werner Reisberger <werner(a)pure.ch> on Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:15:23 +0000 What is wrong with the posting quoted below is that, instead of being informative, it refers us to the FAQ, which is equally uninformative. The FAQ mentions (au-passant) that one can deal with the problem by use of rc.local files, but gives no hint about how to do this. There is no list anywhere, as far as I (and apparently others) have been able to discover, of the various available rc.local files, what they do, and at what point in the process they act. Just as unfortunate, there is no central archive (or if there is, it is well hidden) from which one can obtain these files. In a word, the level of user- friendliness is very close to zero. Third-party hosting services offering SmartList feel no obligation to make these scripts available to users. Mine, for example does not. Perhaps you would post to the SmartList list, for the benefit of your users, a pointer to a list of scripts, with their descriptions; that would make them useful to a far wider group than they are now. Since the scripts are apparently all rather small files, perhaps you could even find a few kilobytes somewhere to post them for FTP download. Would that be difficult? > Intrepid Video Info <info(a)intrepid-video.com> schrieb: > > > I've been looking for some time now, for a way to only allow plain text > > emails on the list. > > I have three different rc.local files(s10, R20, etc) > > Which one an dhow can I configure it? > > that's a faq question > > http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/ > > Werner

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SmartList and virus concern
by Srower＠aol.com 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

I am utilizing SmartList provided by my hosting service (I have no access to change program settings other than add, delete, newsletter, moderated, etc.). My list is set as a newsletter with the intent that subscribers sign up and we send them a newsletter once a month. We should be the only ones able to send messages to the "list." I used SmartList for the first time on 9/18 (when the Nimda virus hit) and although I had done an updated virus scan on my system prior to sending the newsletter to the list, the Snow White virus somehow attached to hundreds of the mailings (thousands went out okay though) and ended up bouncing our newsletter all over the place, often reappearing in people's boxes 20 or 30 times. When the infected recipients "replied" to the newsletter, the mails were then sent to various and sundry e-mail addresses, but generally not to the e-mail address of the list. I now have to do a new mailing and am scared to death to repeat the same performance. Anyone have any words of wisdom for me?

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Filter on To: and Cc: headers?
by Remco Rijnders 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Dear all, I operate a number of mailinglists that are open for posting to anyone. Unfortunately, this openness is being abused by spammers that send out a lot of spam to the lists. As is common with most spam, they send to fake or non existing addresses with the real recipient address only being given in BCC headers. How do I put up such a filter that only mail for a given domain is accepted for the list? Right now I have a rc.local.s10 like this: :0 * !(To|Cc):.*starchat.net ! spameater(a)webconquest.com SUBJ=`formail -zx Subject:` :0fw * ! ^Subject:.*\[routing]\] * ! ^Subject:.Re: * | formail -I "Subject: [routing] $SUBJ" But that doesn't seem to do the trick. Any insights? -- ICQ: 760542, Tel: (+31) 6 11316573, http://www.webconquest.com -*- Zippy's revelation of the moment: -*- As President I have to go vacuum my coin collection!

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I would like translate to spanish...
by Miguel Cruz 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Hallo i would like translate the message that smartlist sends to people. I change file suscribe.txt but the firsts lines arent in that files, I dont know how can i change that: "You have added: email(a)eamail.com The following mail...." Thanks

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(no subject)
by Miguel Cruz 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Hallo i would like translate the message that smartlist sends to people. I change file suscribe.txt but the firsts lines arent in that files, I dont know how can i change that: You have added: email(a)eamail.com The following mail.... Thanks

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