Re: "uns*bscribe" not working on my lists

Is it possible that the 'dist' file entry giving trouble has a DOS 
<CR><LF> end of line that is the problem?
Allen
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> It's been quite a while since I groveled around in the innards of
> multigram, but let me see if I can say something useful ...
> 
> Multigram works in just about exactly the opposite way you might
> expect.  It uses a series of heuristics to pick things that look like
> email addresses out of its standard input, then does a fuzzy match of
> the resulting strings against the list of addresses in the dist file
> (which is named as one of its arguments).  If there are several things
> that look like email addresses clumped together on the same line of
> stdin, it may ignore all but the first one on that line.
> 
> On 10/9/06, Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can't tell what's different about
> > the two lists that makes one work and one fail.
> 
> I suppose you've already confirmed the obvious, such as, they both
> have auto_unsubscribe=y somewhere in the config, neither dist file has
> CRLF line endings, the "broken" dist does have a LF on the end of the
> last line, etc.
> 
> > So, my question *really* is, how do I debug this?
> 
> Start by removing the redirect to /dev/null at about line 50 in the
> "unsubscribe" script, and assign something to LOGFILE in the calling
> procmail so that stderr is captured.
> 
> > I imagine
> > something is going wrong inside "multigram", but I can't even figure
> > out how multigram should be invoked in order to reproduce what
> > happens when mail comes in.  I only barely understand what multigram
> > is supposed to do, and its source code in insanely opaque... Is there
> > even a man page for this thing?
> 
> There should be a file named "Manual" that came with the SmartList
> distribution.  Discussion of multigram is spattered throughout that
> file, but mostly concentrated in section 6.  If you need a copy, let
> me know and I'll send you one.
> 
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