In message <Pine.3.89.9407101349.A5666-0100000@vorlon.mankato.msus.edu>,
"Robert A. Hayden" writes:
>I have spent all weekend trying to get digesting installed on one on my
>lists to no avail. I think the problem is that the documentation is not
>very clear about how the various perl scripts interact and I'm wary
>screwing stuff up.
>
>Can anyone take a moment to explain to me a little better how exactly
>digesting works and what one has to do to get it actually working?
>
>Sorry for such an open-ended question....
Arrange for the mail that you want digested to be sent to the digest
program via an alias/entry like (taken from section 2.2 of the
README):
"| /tools/majordomo/wrapper digest -r -C -l test-digest test-digest-outgoing"
where test-digest is the name of the digest list, and
test-digest-outgoing is an alias that expands to the names of all of
the people subscribed to the digest list. (In order to use mkdigest,
the -digest-outgoing at the end of the alias is required.) Further
info about digest is in section 2.5 of the README. The above will
accumulate the messages to be placed into the digest.
Digest in accumulate mode has an automatic mechanism to create and
send a digest to prevent the creation of digests that are too large to
be delivered via email. If the message currently being accumulated
will make the digest larger than the max_size parameter in the
test-digest config file, then a digest is automatically generated and
sent to all of the people on the test-digest-outgoing alias.
There is also an email accesible mechanism for creating a digest. If
you wish to force a digest manually, the majordomo command:
mkdigest test-digest <test-digest admin password>
will generate a digest for the test-digest. By putting something like:
echo "mkdigest test-digest <passwd>" | mail majordomo@your.site
or
mail majordomo@your.site < ~/.mkdigest-test
(the file ~/.mkdigest-test has "mkdigest test-digest <passwd>"
as its contents)
in your crontab(1) or as an at(1) job , digest creation can be automated.
-- John
John Rouillard
Senior Systems Consultant (SERL Project) University of Massachusetts at Boston
rouilj@cs.umb.edu (preferred) Boston, MA, (617) 287-6480
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