"To post on a given topic, you need to make sure that the Keywords: or Subject: headers in a message match the regular expression for that topic."
It sounds like it is referring to the actual header portion of the message.There obviously isn't a Keywords: header in the actual header of the message. However, it goes on to say:
"By default, you can put a Keywords: section in the beginning of the body of your message, but this can be configured by your list admiinistrator."
I take that to mean that if I define the topic with the Regular Expression "Keywords: Licensing", that all I have to do to match the topic is to compose my message body like this:
Keywords: Licensing
blah blah blah.
However, I don't receive the message. It is true that any address not subscribed to any topic will receive all messages, so the message is being delivered, just not to the address subscribed to the topic. I have tried defining the regular expression as just "Licensing" and composing my message with Licensing on the first line, but that doesn't work either.
As with other Mailman "features", the documentation on this is pretty cryptic. A simple regular expression should not be hard to match. I just don't know what header labels to use when trying to match the topic in the body of the message. Using the Subject line works, but some of my lists mail to multiple topics and using the Subject field is not practical.
Can someone who uses Topics please post some basic information about how this is used?
Christopher Adams
Mark Sapiro wrote:
Christopher Adams wrote:
I would like to set up some topics and allow subscribers to subscribe to topics of their choice. So, I have set up one called 'Licensing'. The Regular Expression is simply Licensing. I have 2 current subscribers. One (me) is subscribed to the Licensing topic. The other is not. When I send out the message, the body looks like this:
Licensing
Blah blah..blah..blah..blah
########################################
From the documentation, I assume that all that has to happen is that if in the first 5 lines (the default) of the message body, the string Licensing is found, the message will be sent to me since I am subscribed to Licensing
according to the VARHELP,
topics_bodylines_limit (topics): How many body lines should the topic matcher scan?
The topic matcher will scan this many lines of the message body looking for topic keyword matches. Body scanning stops when either this many lines have been looked at, or a non-header-like body line is encountered. By setting this value to zero, no body lines will be scanned (i.e. only the Keywords: and Subject: headers will be scanned). By setting this value to a negative number, then all body lines will be scanned until a non-header-like line is encountered.
Apparently the line Licensing
in the body of the message is not a "header-like" line. try Topic: Licensing or Keywords: Licensing
but not to the subscriber that is not subscribed to the topic. Both of us have the option to receive message without topics turned off.
If a user is not subscribed to any topics, the option to not receive messages with no topic is ignored. Thus the other user should receive the post until s/he subscribes to at least one topic.
The result is the opposite of what I would expect. I don't get the message, but the address not subscribed to the topic does. I have done this consistently and can't figure out what might be the problem.
I think the result is correct - you don't receive the post because it doesn't match the Licensing topic because the "Licensing" line is not "keyword-like", and the other user receives all posts because s/he isn't subscribed to any topics.
-- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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