HELP!!!!
I'm trying to use SmartList on NCoast.org to explode the mailing list
Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com to the 150 subscribers. SmartList is rejecting all
the traffic, claiming it came from a daemon. I have tried a variety of
tricks with daemon_bias in rc.custom and have tried commenting out all
the conditions in the recipe in rc.submit that references daemon_bias.
I have complete control of Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com, running V-MailServer
and
Waffle in DOS. I have donate_list control of Theonomy-L(_at_)NCoast(_dot_)org
as a
non-privileged user.
So, Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com is the mailing list all the subscribers know
about and use. The intention is that almost all of the subscribers are
moved over to Theonomy-L(_at_)NCoast(_dot_)org, which is a subscriber of the
official list, making the SmartList a remailer for the publicized list.
The SmartList Manual calls this a routine thing to do.
The exhibits are below. First, for context, why am I trying to do this?
DOS/Waffle has a 128 character per command limit that causes
V-MailServer to only get three or four addresses per mail message, thus
each article sent to the 150 subscribers is 40 or 50 mail transactions.
Theonomy-L has been tying up too much of the uucp bandwidth between
NCoast and the rest of the world and Rich finally said "Enough is
enough!" This was supposed to be a quick expedient to move those 150
copies in one or two uucp transactions instead of 40 or 50, while I
continue slowly bringing up the Linux machine to take over as dlh.com.
Things I have tried for daemon_bias:
< daemon_bias='100^0'
< daemon_bias='123456700^0 ^Sender:(_dot_)*Theonomy-L-relay(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com'
< daemon_bias='-123456700^0 ^Sender:(_dot_)*Theonomy-L-relay(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com'
< #daemon_bias='300^0 ^Sender:(_dot_)*Theonomy-L-relay(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com'
< daemon_bias='300^0'
Each of those produced "Mail from a daemon" bounces to the list owner.
As in:
X-Diagnostic: Mail coming from a daemon, ignored
X-Diagnostic: Possible loopback problem
X-Envelope-To: theonomy-l-request
In the recipe in rc.submit that references daemon_bias, I tried
commenting out each condition line except the first and last, trying to
find something I could do that changed things. No change.
Here is a sample of the headers of a message coming from
Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com (stolen out of somebody's mailbox on dlh.com, I
don't have a clean way to quickly lay hands on the actual copy going to
Theonomy-L(_at_)NCoast(_dot_)org, which should differ only in the To: header):
h>From dlhpfm!dlh.com!VMS-Processor Tue Jan 30 18:44:03 1996 remote from dlhpfm
h>Received: by dlh.com (1.65/waf)
h> via UUCP; Tue, 30 Jan 96 18:44:33 EST
h> for donnalee
h>Received: by dlh.com (V-MailServer/386 Professional 2.99qBETA)
h> id VM3rnq; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:44:03 -0500
h>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 22:19:14 +0000 (CST)
h>From: "John W. Dickey" <ncoast!usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu!EOSINC.COM!FNite>
h>Subject: Re: Captials
h>Sender: Theonomy-L-relay(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h>To: theo-archive(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h> theo-gate(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com,
h> donnalee(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h>Message-Id:
<199601302214(_dot_)RAA06988(_at_)usenet(_dot_)INS(_dot_)CWRU(_dot_)Edu>
h>Reply-To: Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h>Precedence: bulk
h>X-admin: To subscribe send "subscribe Theonomy-L name" in body to
h> Mail-Server(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com / to signoff send "signoff
Theonomy-L"
h> Submissions to Theonomy-L(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h> Administrivia to dlh(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com
h>X-Sender: FNite(_at_)EOSINC(_dot_)COM
I suppose that "V-MailServer/386" is what is labeling this daemon mail.
I don't know if I can change that without doing a binary edit on the
executable file. I have easy control of almost everything in those
headers if someone can tell me what has to change. (Of course, the To:
header is different in the copy that goes to
Theonomy-L(_at_)NCoast(_dot_)org(_dot_))
(And I thought I had removed the Precedence: header.)
Is there any way it can be running a different copy of the rc.* files
than is in the directory containing the dist file?
dan dlh(_at_)dlh(_dot_)com the keeper of Theonomy-L