I am trying to find an MTA that will work with the Smartlist mailing list
package. I don't want to use sendmail. Exim provides a number of
features I really like. Especially eximon for monitoring the queues.
Smartlist manages lists by managing dist files that are :included: into
the alias file. An example alias entry is:
#
# t1 created Fri Jan 24 17:07:29 CST 1997 by
#
t1: |/var/smartlist/.bin/flist t1
t1-request: |/var/smartlist/.bin/flist t1-request
t1-dist: :include:/var/smartlist/t1/dist
An example dist file(/var/smartlist/t1/dist) is:
t1-digests@???
(Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)
bit2@???
The comment line starting "(Only addr..." causes problems with exim.
This appears to be a valid RFC822 comment. However, exim complains about
it and does not deliver any of the mail.
/var/exim/bin/exim -v -M 0vnvBe-00022z-00
delivering message 0vnvBe-00022z-00
LOG: MAIN
Unfrozen by auto-thaw
LOG: MAIN
== t1-dist@??? D=system_aliases defer (-17):
<t1-dist@???> - error in alias file: empty
address in "(Only addresses below this line can be
automatically removed)"
LOG: MAIN
Frozen
Is there any way to get smartlist to ignore RFC 822 style comments in the
alias file?
More information about smartlist can be found at:
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/SmartList.README
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