I've just set up Newsletter SmartList which functions normally with one exception.
No matter what message I enter in the body, I can not get archive messages sent form the server. Each request gets either no reply or a "command error" reply.
I've read threads dating back to 97 with this issue and what I have tried does not work. Ultimately, I'd like to get the Archive onto a web page at my site, but I don't know how to do that, either.
Any help is most welcome and appreciated.
tia
Scott Lancey
WREL Radio, Lexington, VA
I think I've seen this answered before somewhere, but can't find it for the
life of me now that I need it.
One list I administer has gotten quite heavy in email traffic. Some members
only want certain emails from it, but the digest mode doesn't quite meet
their needs. Since my subscription base is quite varied, it's hard to just tell
them like it or not, particularly when the email programs they use vary as
widely as possible.
Is there a way to filter the email to a secondary list based on a keyword
either in the email itself or the subject line? That way the list members only
wanting certain emails could subscribe to the secondary list and not the
primary one.
Thanks...I'm learning it all slowly, and decided it would be faster to seek
more experienced help that to keep going at it trial and error. Other than
this one issue, my subscribers are delighted with the list compared to what we
used to utilize.
Angie
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Sorry 'bout that, & I've resubscribed under the address I really use
as "from" so I won't have any confusion in the future about whether
one of my posts went through.
Anne
> Greetings:
>
> I'm trying to set up a Smartlist list and I'm having some difficulties:
>
> 1) I followed the instructions in the Smartlist Manual for adding a footer
> (uncommented the RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_20 line, created an rc.local.s20 file
> referencing footer.txt, also created footer.txt) Posts do not have a
footer
> attached though.
>
> 2) I used Majordomo & Procmail on the old list and want to use some of the
> filters already configured. I hear that Procmail can be used here, but how
> do I implement it?
>
> There's more, but this is all I can think of at the moment. I've been
> weeding through the Smartlist Manual and all documentation I can find, but
> cannot find answers to my questions. Any help I can get would be
> appreciated, I really need to get this list up and running quickly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Judy Lavik
>
Thank you, Charlie, for explaining that. I was confused by the manual text "showlink: It will
display what groups of files are linked together." I thought I could use it to tell if dist and
accept are hard linked together.
Thanks, again, for helping me understand SmartList.
-Kevin
>>> Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> 06/27/01 11:13AM >>>
At 10:48 AM -0400 6/27/01, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:
> Is something broken,
> or just something I don't understand?
showdist is designed to show you the directories where like-file hardlinks
reside. For example, in your list directory type:
../.bin/showlink rc.init
...and you'll see a list of the _directories_ where there are hard links
to your rc.init file (generally every list directory you have plus .etc/
unless you have a modified rc.init file somewhere).
showlink really wasn't designed to show any hardlink anywhere on your hard
drive (it _only_ looks insite the main lists directory...link a copy of
rc.init outside the list tree and showlink won't see it).
Charlie
When I type "../.bin/showlink dist" in a freshly-created slist emailer directory, such as my
"/home/slist/popreporter" directory, the program doesn't return anything; I just get another
prompt. If I just type "../.bin/showlink" I get the "usage" text, indicating that the program's
running. dist is linked to accept; if I edit one, the other one changes. Is something broken,
or just something I don't understand?
-Kevin Zembower
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here's how to block attachments:
go into rc.init and uncomment the line that points to rc.local.s00
go to http://www.hardlink.net/Support/Smartlist/contrib/reject_garbage.txt
create the rc.local.s00 file using the script on the above web page
copy and paste the two scripts (rejectmsg / rejectquote) into two text
files (don't forget to edit the e-mail addresses)
upload everything to your smartlist directory
So far, it appears to be working, but I'm continuing to test.
Irwin
I've changed MTA (from smail to exim) and now in email appear the
header:
Resent-To: <list_of_email_in_dist>
clearly i don't want that email in dist will go out in message, and
i've no clue.
Thanks.
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I still think that what I want to do is not a great departure from what many folks might like a mailing list system to do. I have a input text box on a web page where viewers can fill in their email address if they want to be notified when the page changes. My simple perl script appends their email address to a flat file that has one email address per line. I'd like to be able to use this file of email addresses as the distribution list for SmartList. However, I'd like SmartList to handle the bounces. I'd also like to be able to have users subscribe and unsubscribe directly to the -request address. My perl script wouldn't "care" if another program, such as SmartList, were also adding and deleting lines.
I didn't realize that this was asking a lot. The dist file and my flat file are in the same format. I can give the flat file any permissions it needs. To make my simple "append this email address to the file" perl script into a full-functioned emailer is more programming than I want.
Do other folks use SmartList to handle a task like this, or is there some other solution that is better suited?
Thanks for your 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
>>> Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> 06/18/01 02:25PM >>>
At 12:01 PM -0400 6/18/01, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:
> It is with great trepidation that I send this message to the list again.
>Does no one use SmartList in the way that I want to?
I'd seriously doubt it, since you say you are not _using_ SmartList to
manage your dist file, and yet you seem to want SmartList to handle your
bounces. Doesn't make a lick of sense to me at all, which is why I think
you're unlikely to get much help - kinda oxymoronic, eh?
> I'm trying to do something unorthodox with SmartList. My distribution list
>is kept in a flat file by another program that I have to continue to use.
Then I'd suggest you redirect any bounce messages off to the program that
is managing the "flat file" and write your own routines in the "flat file"
manager (I am assuming you're refering to a flat-file database manager, but I
could be wrong, and frankly it doesn't much matter) to handle the bounces.
Either SmartList manages the distribution list, or your "flat file" program
does. Seems to me that having both thumbs in the pie is a recipe for
disaster...and trying to get SmartList to handle bounces when you admit it
_doesn't_ manage the dist file is just silly.
Charlie
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