lawrence@epps.kodak.com (Scott Lawrence) (02/02/91)
I've been struggling with this for long enough now that I would rather
get the answer and look silly than not get the answer, so here goes:
I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, and would like to
redistribute some of them locally. I am using slocal for a number of
other things very smoothly, so I tried using rcvdist to do this too.
First I resent stuff from the list to a system-wide (sendmail
implemented) alias for my group - which included me, which caused us
all to get about 30 copies before sendmail cried foul and stopped it.
So I tried setting up an mh alias for the list, so that the
.maildelivery line for the list is:
To bulletin@osf.org | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvdist osf-dist"
and in my Aliasfile (~/.mail-aliases):
osf-dist: <snickel@aps>, <sas@aps>
Well, they don't get it - a little experimentation revealed that
rcvdist is not consulting my aliases (the mail ends up in a black hole
somewhere, I guess). I tried adding a '-alias ~/.mail-aliases'
argument, but it says: "post: missing argument to -alias", so it looks
like rcvdist isn't passing the argument through cleanly.
Any suggestions/patches for this? I could write a script to wrap
around rcvdist, but that seems like overkill. My rcvdist describes
itself as follows:
version: MH 6.7 #3[UCI] (barney) of Mon Aug 6 17:14:18 EDT 1990
options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [DBM] [BIND] [DUMB]
[RPATHS] [MHE] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [SENDMTS]
[SMTP]
Thanks in advance for the answer (if don't know and want to, send mail -
I will forward the better responses).
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Scott Lawrence <lawrence@epps.kodak.com> Voice: 508-670-4023
Atex Advanced Publishing Systems Fax: 508-670-4033
Atex, Inc; 165 Lexington St. MS 400/165L; Billerica MA 01821jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) (02/02/91)
In article <5088@atexnet.UUCP> lawrence@epps.kodak.com writes: >I subscribe to a number of mailing lists, and would like to >redistribute some of them locally. The commonly accepted way to do this is to use a system-wide alias for the inbound list mail, and ask the list manager to send the list mail directly to that address. >...my .maildelivery line for the list is: >To bulletin@osf.org | R "/usr/local/lib/mh/rcvdist osf-dist" This isn't going to work because rcvdist doesn't read your .mh_profile, and doesn't know about aliases. >...I tried adding a '-alias ~/.mail-aliases' >argument, but it says: "post: missing argument to -alias" rcvdist is probably interpreting the argument to -alias as an address to distribute to. I don't know how to work around this, offhand. slocal and the rcvmail hooks don't read your .mh_profile so that they can be used by non-MH users. >Any suggestions/patches for this? Since you have the ability to change system-wide aliases, either change your subscription address with the mailing list, or add a system-wide alias that lists the other people you want to dist the message to, and continue to use rcvdist for them. -- John Romine