Here we go with YAQAD (Yet Another Question About Digests). When I
installed 1.94.3 I couldn't get the digests to work, so I just ignored
them. We don't have that many digest subscribers, and I figured that
they could wait a few years. But every so often a digest magically
appears! It turns out that digests can be generated automatically when
there are enough messages, but when I try to issue the mkdigest comand
it aborts because the file ~majordomo/.digestrc is missing.
This ~majordomo/.digestrc file puzzles me -- the example that is given
is for a specific list (firewalls), but it is supposed to be installed
as ~majordomo/.digestrc -- what about all the other lists? Do I have to
create a special file for each digest? Somewhere between the automatic
digesting and the stand-alone digesting (which I assume means running a
digest without a list) there is presumably some way of invoking
mkdigest, but I can't figure out how.
Also the docs say that I must create archive directories:
$digest_work_dir = "/usr/local/mail/digest";
$filedir = "/usr/local/mail/files";
$filedir_suffix = ".archive";
That being the case, you must create these two directories:
/usr/local/mail/digest/banjo-digest
/usr/local/mail/files/banjo-digest.archive
I've been using $filedir_suffix = ""; and it works fine, and the
automatic digests are appearing as they should. This is also confusing.
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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2, Tel. (902)426-1577
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