M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 15:12:39 PM +0100, CPHennessy
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm not sure what exact solution you were proposing but if it is an
automatic email to unsubscribed users, then yes, I do that
already.
No, it's something else, which is complementary to what you are
already doing:
1) Unsubscribed user posts to list
2) procmail recognizes that message as coming from unsubscribed user,
and memorizes subject and original unsubscribed sender
3) EVERYBODY STOPS THIS CRAP OF REPOSTING EVERYTHING TO EVERYBODY AND
HIS THIRD COUSIN, BECAUSE:
4) if they have nothing to add, they just sit down, no posting
anywhere
5) if they have something to say, ONLY REPLY TO LIST AS IT SHOULD BE,
SINCE:
6) the same procmail at 2) will recognize when THE LIST receives an
answer to "thread-started-by-unsubscribed-guy" and
7) the same procmail will send to $UNSUBSCRIBED-GUY only a notification
that somebody answered, please check the archives to read it.
8) even better: procmail can automatically forward an extra copy of
that answer:
ONLY TO $UNSUBSCRIBED-GUY
WITH Reply address set to [email protected]
ONLY for the first N replies if that makes you feel
better
Practically speaking, all this would be accomplished by setting up one
extra procmail recipe, just once, only on one (yours) computer, without
wasting one second with collabnet. Period.
Now please somebody explain me what are the concrete, technical
obstacles to this.
Thanks,
Marco
Thank you for finally posting the proposed solution. I realize you
posted it 15 months ago, but the archives are down. You would think we
could have saved a lot of time if you just would have done this at the
start.
Reasons:
1) I am not running a mail a server and do not plan on being obligated
to leave my computer on 24 hours a day.
2) Even if I did, I am not running Linux so I can't run procmail.
Procmail sounds like a great program, but I can't run it. So, I guess
until someone with Linux volunteers to do this, this conversation is mute.
Another problem with you solution (I think although there may be
something in the e-mail header I don't know about) is that when an
unsubscribed user sends a message with no subject, it gets the subject
moderated and we end up with 10 - 15 messages a day some time with taht
subject. Would procmail handle that well?
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