Distribution list enhancement

brother.gabriel · Post by **brother.gabriel** » 2013-03-04 15:46

P.S., y'all, if anyone has downloaded my package before March 4, I had left a call to a "CopyMessageToSharepointDropFolder(oMessage)" function in the OnDeliverMessage sub. But I remembered this just this morning and removed it, as it doesn't belong to the ListServer script.

I've updated the package to reflect this, but didn't change the version number.

Caspar · Post by **Caspar** » 2013-03-04 17:10

brother.gabriel wrote:Caspar, in the beginning I annotated everywhere in the script where I made a change, but in the last round, I made so many that I gave up on that. If you want a line-by-line, you'll have to use a file-comparitor such as WinMerge.

If your intention is to check with the backward compatibility of the script with hMailServer 4, I think I did, indeed break it.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by referencing "hMailServer documentation" - I've made no changes to hMailServer at all - just to the ListServer script. My documentation is all there. I'd be interested to know what you think. The links are in my previous post.

I meant for the documentation here:
http://www.hmailserver.com/documentatio ... e=overview

if you have some specific changes you can remember, I could have some use of it to make updating the documentation there more easy.

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-12 14:57

I cannot download the latest script package - getting 404 error.
Can someone post a valid link to it?

Bill48105 · Post by **Bill48105** » 2013-04-12 16:04

simonjshaw wrote:I cannot download the latest script package - getting 404 error.
Can someone post a valid link to it?

You mean the attachments on 1st post?

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-12 16:14

Okay I'm being stupid I expect. Something to do with age - please be patient.
I see attachments on the first post and can download them.

But I saw that first Peter and then Br Gabriel updated the script, and was trying to download the latter from his site.
that was what I wanted - latest script.
Anyway I used Peter's.

I cannot find much documentation which tells me step by step how to set up this list server, so I'm making lots of assumptions, maybe false ones:

I created a user listserv@mydomain
I created a distribution list mylist@mydomain

I got the paths sorted out and created config file called listserv_at_mydomain.txt

It won't process a subscription from me send to listserv@mydomain

I get (I've replaced real values with listname and mydomain below):

"12/04/2013 15:00:53" "Subject: subscribe listname"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Starting mail configuration check"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Recipient: listserv@mydomain"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Reading config file: c:\ListServData\listname_at_mydomain.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " admin=simon@mydomain"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " operator=or"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " todo=delete"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " pw_enclosure=#"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " allowmembers=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " addsenderheader=list"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " addreplytoheader=list"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " smtpmailfrom=list"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " subjectprefix=%address%: "
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " failure_notification=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " failure_notification_subject=Delivery Failure"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " failure_notification_file=failure_notification.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " success_notification=false"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " success_notification_subject=Successful delivery"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " success_notification_file=success_notification.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " header_file=header.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " footer_file=footer.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " header_file_html=header_html.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " footer_file_html=footer_html.txt"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " attach_recipients_to_footer=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " attach_recipients_delimiter=; "
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " attach_recipients_html=%recipients%"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " email_subscription=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " email_subscription_admin_notification=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " email_subscription_allowed_cmds=help#list#subscribe#subscribeaddress#subscribelist#unsubscribe#unsubscribeaddress#unsubscribelist"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " email_subscription_success_notification=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " email_subscription_failure_notification=true"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Subscription via email activated."
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " This is not a distribution list!"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Checking recipient: listserv@mydomain"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Member of the distribution list"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Checking conditions: No PW defined"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " -> result = false : recipient will be deleted"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " --> Recipient will be deleted."
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Changing recipients"
"12/04/2013 15:00:53" " Recipient listserv@mydomain has been deleted"

Any help appreciated.

brother.gabriel · Post by **brother.gabriel** » 2013-04-12 16:24

Hello.

I made some documentation here:
http://www.sspxusa.org/goodies/hMailSer ... manual.htm

But here is the download link:
http://www.sspxusa.org/goodies/hMailSer ... Server.zip

I don't make any guarantees, but I am using this in production.

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-12 16:33

Hi Br Gabriel
I'm afraid that link gives me a server-specific 404 not found error

brother.gabriel · Post by **brother.gabriel** » 2013-04-12 16:46

I'm sorry; I had misnamed the file; try it again.

I assume the documentation link works, however.

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-12 18:22

Got it downloaded, thank you. I assume no-one else has used the published link, so I might be on my own with this version.

Still not very sure how to use it - I'm afraid I don't find the documentation very clear on setting up fist list.
Since it doesn't mention it, am I to understand I don't need to have a listserv@domain user? Do I send subscribe commands to the list itself?

And I'm getting some VBS errors. Variables not defined:

"ERROR" 1316 "2013-04-12 17:04:06.562" "Script Error: Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error - Error: 800A01F4 - Description: Variable is undefined: 'configfileextension' - Line: 751 Column: 2 - Code: (null)"

I put a public constant in for that, value ".hms", then I got...

"ERROR" 1316 "2013-04-12 17:08:50.827" "Script Error: Source: Microsoft VBScript runtime error - Error: 800A01F4 - Description: Variable is undefined: 'serveradmin' - Line: 911 Column: 18 - Code: (null)"

So I'm thinking perhaps I'll just give up on this.

brother.gabriel · Post by **brother.gabriel** » 2013-04-12 19:01

Did you read through this page:
http://www.sspxusa.org/goodies/hMailSer ... ist_9.html

Point Number 5 says,

5.Set the name of your list-level settings file. Remember the name of the distribution list you created? Go into the config\bobsdomain.com directory, find the file called mylist_at_mydomain_com.hms and rename it. Now, you have to get this right, or it won't work. (There are some directions for this.) So now you should have renamed the sample file to bobslist_at_bobsdomain_com.hms.

In this version, I changed all the extensions from .txt to .hms in order to facilitate automatic syntax colouration in notepad++. But if your global settings are set to .txt, then you won't have to change the file extension.

If you want to get this working for you, you will have to either read all of the documentation and understand what is happening, or you can download the original script and try to figure it out the way I did.

What you can't do: plop the script into hMailServer and expect it to "just work".
Sorry, it's too complicated for that.
You have to do a certain amount of configuration. That's why I made the documentation.

If you are already willing to give up, I say that is probably a good idea.

mattg · Post by **mattg** » 2013-04-13 01:00

brother.gabriel wrote:If you are already willing to give up, I say that is probably a good idea.

+1

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-13 15:58

Okay, I probably shouldn't give up yet, I'd just had a long and frustrating Friday, but I think it's slightly unfair to say "read the manual", when in fact I have done that, I have implemented what I've read, but am still experiencing an error due to an undeclared/unassigned variable - not because my settings haven't been configured.

I'd like to get it working, and would appreciate some specific help, if you have the time.

Specifically, where should the variable "serveradmin" be declared, and where should it's value be set?
I cannot see a declaration. "Option explicit" is set, which will then cause the error.
Would you mind having a look at this point for me and tell me where I'm going wrong?
I could just declare and assign it at the top of the script like I did for the config file suffix issue.

By the way, I only have a list-level settings file. It is correctly named and is being picked up.
I have an empty (apart from a "this is a sample" comment) global config.hms as per the downloded package.

If you haven't time to help then I do understand.

simonjshaw · Post by **simonjshaw** » 2013-04-13 16:09

I got it working! I added these two lines to the script:

Public Const configfileextension = ".hms"
Public Const serveradmin = "me@mydomain"

If this addition is needed in the standard script I hope this has helped.
If not, then I would appreciate knowing how I should have solved this issue?

Thanks to all those who worked on this.

brother.gabriel · Post by **brother.gabriel** » 2013-04-13 17:15

Simon, if you were missing those two variables, it was my fault.

I'm glad you didn't give up - you got me on that one. I was using my production server as a dev server and copying out the settings for the distribution, and I guess I missed copying over those two constants.

I took a look through the script and didn't find anything else missing.

So I've updated the script.

Noone else has ever said anything, so I suppose you are the only person to download the new script.

Thanks for finding it! Sorry for the trouble.

Now, I do have another unpublished update. But I have a "changes" section in the documentation that will say what was done and what needs to be done to a currently running setup in order to use the newer version. I'll post back here once I get it together.

Toast_r · Post by **Toast_r** » 2013-05-05 13:13

Hi Gabriel,
thank you for your work on the listserver, I think you have done a great on it.
I installed it yesterday and its running.
But I noticed one issue whith html messages.
The html footer is not appended at the end of the message, but is inserted in message near by the beginning.
There are not a lot messages since I installed it yesterday, but this can be seen on all html messages there are so far, which were all sent by the same user.

Here is an example message received from the listserver: