Thanks; that was helpful. It reminded me that I had modified SmartList a decade ago so that it did work that way, and that I needed to go find a copy of my changes. I did and now things are working the way they are supposed to be working for my site.

It had been so long since I had really studied Smartlist recipes that I had forgotten all about it.

Thanks again for taking the time to dissect the messages.

-- Greg

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Cary Coutant ccoutant@gmail.com wrote:

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procmail: Executing "multigram,-b1,-l30730,reject"

procmail: Non-zero exitcode (1) from "multigram"

procmail: No match on "multigram -b1 -l30730 reject"

This just means that the address you were trying to subscribe was not on the "reject" list. No problem here.

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procmail: Executing " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist"

procmail: Non-zero exitcode (1) from " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist" procmail: No match on " formail -IReceived: -IX-Envelope-To: -IIn-Reply-To: -ICc: | \ multigram -b1 -x$listreq -x$listaddr -l$reject_threshold dist"

And this means that the address isn't already on the mailing list. No problem here either.

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procmail: No match on "y"

This means that you haven't enabled auto_subscribe. This is probably your problem.

This isn't going to do what you expect anyway. Sending a message to the -request address with "subscribe" in the subject will add you, the *sender*, to the list -- not the address you give after the "subscribe" command.

If you as the list maintainer are trying to repopulate all your lists, you should be using X-Commands. In rc.custom, set X_COMMAND_PASSWORD to a password of your choice, then you can send a message to the -request address with an X-Command header like this:

X-Command: you@example.com PASSWORD subscribe someone@example.com

Where you@example.com is the maintainer and someone@example.com is the address you want to subscribe. You can even send multiple commands in one message:

X-Command: you@example.com PASSWORD subscribe someone@example.com subscribe someoneelse@example.com

See section 2 of .etc/Manual for more details.

-cary