On Mon, 27 Jun 2002, Greg Matheson wrote:
What modifications do you have in mind? With qmail, it is easy for ordinary users to set up alternatives like listname-subscribe@host.tld, but more difficult with other MTAs.
For now I have simply kludged the following (inadequate) solution (mostly because my recipe writing ability remains at "trial-and-error").
1. In aliases file:
listname-subscribe: "|exec /home/list/.bin/flist listname-request"
2. Activiate rc.local.r10 in rc.custom
3. rc.local.r10 is called in rc.request and contains a preemptory
:0: | subscribe
(Yes, I know, this is a catastrophe ... but in my case, I have just started the list, and while I am waiting for a week or two for people to sign up, I am hoping I can find a better solution!)
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What would be better is that there is a recipe in rc.request that would check the "To" field. If it was "listname-subscribe" or "listname-unsubscribe", then it would do the appropriate actions.
I am sure it is trivial. But even if I have been using Smartlist for 5 years, I am not very smart about it, and my trial-and-error attempts to make recipes here did not give good results, hence my query to this list.
Cheers, Seth Chaiklin