I'd like to close a mailing list and have all posters receive a message with a subject like "This mailing list has moved to foo@bar.com" and a more expansive explanation in the body, followed by the body of their message.
I tried to do this in rc.local.r00 (which is enabled): :0: | formail -rtk -I "Subject: This list has moved to foo@bar.org. Contact foo-master@bar.org with questions."
This would have only changed the subject, but it didn't seem to work anyhow.
I didn't find anything about this as an explicit FAQ, but I was trying to use the pattern of 4.8: "How to bounce messages with a certain word in the subject." I couldn't find a way of searching the archives of this list without downloading 5MB of traffic.
Would anyone suggest a recipe which would do all this?
Is this a good method in the first place to deal with a closed list? Are there any better ways of dealing with it?
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
-Kevin Zembower
----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139
At 1:36 PM -0500 3/19/03, KEVIN ZEMBOWER is rumored to have typed:
I'd like to close a mailing list and have all posters receive a message with a subject like "This mailing list has moved to foo@bar.com" and a more expansive explanation in the body, followed by the body of their message.
Why use SmartList for this at all? Close down the list, and set up a simple vacation message off of the aliases. (Or even send a 500-level error with the error message, "This list moved to foo@bar")
Seems to me using SmartList for this is serious overkill.
Charlie
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