I'm finding a problem with the way the approve script interacts with
a .majordomo file that I've noticed since I upgraded from 1.93 to
1.94, and it still persists in 1.94.1. In sum, if I pipe a message
through approve in my mailer, I get the error message:
no password for list listname; skipping "subscribe listname \
omar@clifford.inch.com" at /usr/local/bin/approve line 147, <STDIN> chunk 18.
I got this to work by removing the "\" escaping the "@" in line 145:
$ diff approve.new approve
145c145
< $passwd = $passwd{"$list@$reply_to"};
---
> $passwd = $passwd{"$list\@$reply_to"};
This doesn't seem to fix everything, however. I'm under the impression
that you can use approve to let administrative bounces go to the
list, but that also gives me errors.
I don't know if there's other functionality affected (there seem to
be other of these associative arrays in approve - lines 234 and 235),
and I don't know perl well enough to give a definitive explanation
(unless it's simply that when using a string in an associative array,
you don't need to escape the @).
Here's some more related info for those that don't know about the
.majordomo file usage. You can have a .majordomo file set up in your
home directory. It's for maintaining lists and stores the listname,
list password, and list address in the form:
listname listpasswd majordomo@list.wherever
). Thus, you can pipe a message Mj sends to you through the approve script,
which parses the file, checks out the .majordomo file, and completes the
request.
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