At 12:21 AM -0400 7/23/02, Gyan Penrose-Kafka is rumored to have typed:
I have an account with a web hosting service. I would like to set up SmartList to work on this, and I've been able to do everything except for setting up the alias file because I don't have write access to the directory. How do I work around this?
Assuming you have a "virtual" domain account, and control completely the mail that comes in to the domain, and assuming they allow the use of a .forward file sending the mail to procmail (or use procmail as the delivery agent), you can use a simple set of recipies in your ~/.procmailrc file:
:0 * ^TOlistname@yourdomain.tld |/full/path/to/SmartList/.bin/flist testing
:0 * ^TO listname@yourdomain.tld |/full/path/to/SmartList/.bin/flist testing
This has a side benefit (or bug, your call) of dropping blind carbons through to the rest of your .procmailrc file, and likely into your systems mailbox, unless your provider is adding an X-Envelope-To: header field in their sendmail config.
(Note there are a lot of "ifs" here...since I don't use your provider, I have no clue how they have things set up, so you'll need to experiment and possibly ask _them_ for some help as well. But this should give you a start, anyway.)
Charlie