Re: Why am I no longer receiving the digest?
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:05:33 +0100
Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 04:16:25PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> >
> > To solve your problem (avoiding downloading huge files), you have to
> > edit file "animailrc". Open /usr/share/doc/animail/docs.html with a
> > browser, click on the section "Animailrc configuration reference".
> > Here's the part that's relevant:
> >
> > 1. MaxSize:
> > Parameter: Numeric (in bytes)
> > Default value: Unlimited
> > This command specifies the maximum size of a message to be
> > downloaded. Those messages that won't be downloaded will be
> > deleted on the server.
> >
> > No need for regular expressions, just specifiy a maximum size for
> > messages and that's it.
>
> Thanks, but actually this doesn't solve the problem. Mixed with the
> backlog of debian-user digests will be digests of similar size from
> other mailing lists which are working normally, and these I do not
> want to block. So I do need to filter on headers, but as I say, the
> abovementioned docs.txt.gz, while indicating the obvious fact that
> this involves regular expressions, says nothing about how they are
> used.
>
> The docs.html on sourceforge.net is more forthcoming, but refers to a
> later version of Animail than the current stable release. The changes
> seem to be quite extensive, and most of the config stuff is not
> applicable. In particular, it seems that 1.1.30 has both an "accept"
> and a "deny" file, whereas 1.0.6 only has one file ~/.Animailfilters,
> and it doesn't say whether this is an "accept" or "deny" file, or
> indeed anything useful about what goes in it.
>
> What version of Animail are you using? I don't have a
> /usr/share/doc/animail/docs.html, only a docs.txt.gz. I've installed
> the "stable" version, 1.0.6.
>
> The versioning seems to be in a bit of a mess. On sourceforge.net at
> the moment I find:
>
> Stable version 1.0.6, as a .deb (yay!) and as a .tar.gz
> Unstable version 2.0-pre14, as a .deb and a .tar.gz
> docs.html for version 1.1.30
>
> Having downloaded, but not installed, the .deb of the "unstable"
> version 2.0-pre14, and looked inside it, I find it does include
> /usr/share/doc/animail/docs.html, but again for version 1.1.30.
> There's also a docs.html in Spanish, for version 1.1.29.
>
> I don't really want to install an "unstable" version, especially with
> such out-of-date documentation. Is this the version that you're using,
> and if so, could you confirm that (a) it's not actually very unstable
> and (b) the docs are not so out-of-date as not to apply?
>
> If not, would it be possible for you to send me (offlist, naturally)
> a copy of the .deb that you installed, which from your comments seems
> to be in a more cohesive state than what's currently available?
Dear Pigeon,
Sorry it's taken me this many days to reply, but I was on a business
trip for the past few days.
I can confirm that I installed version 2.0-pre14 from the deb file.
Despite being labeled "unstable," it seems to be very stable for me, and
I'm running Woody, not Sid.
/usr/share/doc/animail/docs.html does say version 1.1.30 at the bottom
of the file, but I haven't run into any incompatibility yet between the
documentation and the program itself. I've configured as docs.html
suggested, and so far it has worked.
I'm not an expert in regular expressions, but I understand the basics.
Sounds to me like you don't need anything very complicated. If you
wanted to block messages from this mailing list, for example, seems like
all you need in your deny file is a line like this:
To: debian-user | Cc: debian-user
Hope this helps.
regards,
Robert
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