SmartList Frequently Asked Questions

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#moderated_flag
##moderated_flag=       yes             # uncomment this to make the list
                                        # moderated (you must create a

#moderated_flag
moderated_flag=       yes               # uncomment this to make the list
                                        # moderated (you must create a

perl -p -i -e 's/\r//' rc.local.s20

auto_subscribe = no


#
# Adding a disclaimer in front of every mail:
#

:0 fhw
| cat - header.txt

#
# Appending a footer to every outgoing mail:
#

:0 fbw
| cat - footer.txt


#
# Appending a disclaimer to every outgoing mail:
#

:0 fbBw
* ! to unsubscribe
| cat - footer.txt

TEXT=`sed -n '2 p' <footer.txt`
:0 fbBw
* $ ! $\TEXT
| cat - footer.txt

 -x$listaddr -x$listreq accept accept2

 -x$listaddr -x$listreq accept accept2 accept3

grep -i user@domain.net acc*
cat acc*|grep @|sort|uniq|wc
cat acc*|grep @|sort|uniq -d

51,66c51,60
<          $echo $2 | $multigram -c -l32000 dist >/dev/null
<          if test $? -ne 0; then
< 	   $echo "From $2 " >$tmprequest
< 	   $echo "From: request ($listreq)" >>$tmprequest
< 	   $echo "Reply-To: $2" >>$tmprequest
< 	   $echo "To: $listreq" >>$tmprequest
< 	   $echo "Subject: subscribe $2" >>$tmprequest
< 	   $echo "$2" >$tmpfrom
< 	   $test -z "$subscribe_log" ||
< 	    $echo "x_command: subscribe" >>$subscribe_log
< 	    $subscribe <$tmprequest ||
<    	   $echo "X-Diagnostic: Unscreened, not subscribed"
<      else
<        $echo ""
<        $echo "$2 is already subscribed!"
<      fi
---
> 	 $echo "From $2 " >$tmprequest
> 	 $echo "From: request ($listreq)" >>$tmprequest
> 	 $echo "Reply-To: $2" >>$tmprequest
> 	 $echo "To: $listreq" >>$tmprequest
> 	 $echo "Subject: subscribe $2" >>$tmprequest
> 	 $echo "$2" >$tmpfrom
> 	 $test -z "$subscribe_log" ||
> 	  $echo "x_command: subscribe" >>$subscribe_log
> 	 $subscribe <$tmprequest ||
> 	  $echo "X-Diagnostic: Unscreened, not subscribed"

case "$1" in
*@friendly.dom            exit 0 ;;       # This one is ok
esac

exit 1          # reject everything else

102a103,107
>   * 2^0 ? if test -f postscreen; then \
>           screenadress=`formail -xFrom: | sed -e 's/.*<$.*$>/\1/' \
>           -e 's/$.*$ (.*)/\1/'`; \
>           postscreen $screenadress;\
>           fi

    :0
    * ^Subject:[ ]*.*foobar.*
    | formail -rtk -I "Subject: Posting of followup rejected (was: $MATCH)"

:0 wfbh
* !< $size_limit
|formail -rk -I "X-Loop: $listreq" -I "From: $listreq" \
 -I "Subject: Sorry, message size for $list is max.: $size_limit bytes!" |\
 $SENDMAIL -t


alt_sendmail="smart-qmail dist $listreq"

#!/usr/bin/perl
$from = $ARGV[1];
$addyfile = $ARGV[0];
while() {
  $message .= $_;
  }

open(BLAH,"<$addyfile") || die "Doh!  No address file!\n";
$x = 0;
while () {
  if(/Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed/) {
    next;
    }
  chop;
  $addy .= " ". $_;
  $x++;

  # 30 is kinda arbitrary, I just don't want to run into any ugly command
  # line length limits.

  if ($x == 30) {
    open(INJECT,"|/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f$from $addy");
    print INJECT $message;
    close INJECT;
    $x = 0;
    $addy = "";
    }
  }
open(INJECT,"|/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f$from $addy");
print INJECT $message;
close INJECT;

554 "|exec /path/to/flist listname"... Service unavailable

listname: "|exec /path/to/flist listname"

ln -s /path/to/flist /location/of/smrsh/flist
listname: "|flist listname"

--- installed/rc.request        Thu Oct 31 00:02:23 1996
+++ rc.request  Fri Oct 18 09:11:58 1996
@@ -291,20 +264,20 @@
#

# is there more than one maintainer?
-maintainer_re=$maintainer
-maintainers=$maintainer
+maintainer_re="$maintainer"
+maintainers="$maintainer"
Maintainer=Maintainer

:0
* maintainer ?? ,
-{ maintainer_re=`echo "$maintainer" | sed -e 's/,/|/g' -e 's/\./\\\./g'`
-  maintainers=`echo "$maintainer" | sed -e 's/,/ /g'`
+{ maintainer_re="`echo $maintainer | sed -e 's/,/|/g' -e 's/\./\\\./g'`"
+  maintainers="`echo $maintainer | sed -e 's/,/ /g'`"
Maintainer=Maintainers
}

:0 wf:dist.lock
-* $^$X_COMMAND:.*$maintainer_re[        ]+$X_COMMAND_PASSWORD

SUBJ=`formail -zx Subject:`   # extract the subject
:0fw
* !  Subject:.*\[listname\]
* !  Subject:.Re: *
| formail -I "Subject: [listname] $SUBJ"

:0f
* !digest_flag ?? y
* $!^Subject:.*\\[listname\\].*
* ^Subject:\/.*
| formail -I "Subject: [listname]$MATCH"

#
# Adding some custom headers (although it will work, this is not
# needed for Reply-To related headers, see the reply_to variable in
# rc.custom):
#

:0 fhw
| formail -i "X-Subliminal-Message: SmartList is great" \
-I "X-Mailer: procmail, which is great too :-)"


#
# To get rid of some headers:
#

:0 fhw
| formail -I X-Mailing-List: -I X-Mailer:


#
# To get rid of all X- fields:
#

:0 fhw
| formail -I X-

#! /bin/sh
:
#
#   rc.dedup.list
#
#   mdm 11/5/97   borrow code from  David W. Tamkin, with additional
#                 suggestions from Martin Konold and Hal Wine
#
#
#  This script will sort and remove duplicates from a Smartlist
#  distribution file.  Smartlist dist files contain a comment line
#  that looks like this
#
#      (Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)
#
#  Addresses above and including this line will not be sorted.
#

lockfile=lockfile   # /usr/bin/lockfile
cat=cat             # /bin/cat
rm=rm               # /bin/rm
sed=sed             # /bin/sed

#  create lock file to discourage smartlist running a job

$lockfile -10 -l3600 -r11 -s30 rc.lock

$sed -e "1,/(Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)/{
;w slabove.$$
;d;
}
" dist | sort -fu -o slbelow.$$

$cat sl?????.$$ > dist
$rm -f sl?????.$$

$rm -rf rc.lock

reply_to = $listaddr

reply_to = "Reply-To: $listaddr"

        :0 fhw
        | formail -I "Reply-To: test@somedomain.com"

reply_to = $listaddr

reply_to = "Reply-To: `formail -xFrom:`"

---
To unsubscribe, blah blah blah.
This list has $COUNT subscribers.

RC_LOCAL_REQUEST_20  = rc.local.r20
# Count list members, and update footer.txt using footer.template.
:0
* ^X-Diagnostic: (Processed|Added to the subscriber list)
{
    COUNT=`grep -cv '^(' dist`
    :0cWi
    | sed 's/\$COUNT/'"$COUNT"/g footer.template >footer.txt
}


SmartList Frequently Asked Questions

Table Of Contents

1: General

2: Basic List Administration

3: Remote Administration

4: Restrictions and Security

5: Digests

6: Interaction of SmartList with Message Transfer Agents (MTAs)

7: Addons and enhancements for SmartList

8: Miscellaneous