The remailer is currently down. It will probably not arise again since its functionality has been replaced by the Majordomo program running on nmia.com (mailto://majordomo@majordomo.nmia.com)
It was brought down (ultimately) by a bug in the AWK engine that didn't test a zero as zero, then subtracted one from it, and got zero (again) and that didn't test as zero, and when it got -1 the next time it subtracted one, it certainly wasn't zero. None of the subsequent numbers arrived at by subtracting one over and over were zero either. When it had filled up nmia.com's hard drive it stopped (and so did nmia.com).
The proprietors of nmia.com offered us the option of using the majordomo mailer. If you want to subscribe to the new one, send mail to the above address, and ask it for help in the body of the message. It will tell you how to subscribe. Or go to The New Mexico Green Party web site and look at the info there.
The GreenLite/List Automated Remailer was developed to allow individuals (in this case, people from the Green Party) the opportunity to choose the depth of discussion at which they wish to participate (to keep one's mailbox as empty as possible), while guaranteeing that all "announcement" level mail gets through (whether or not the sender is a member of the list).
It is a very simple concept. Mail going to the upper address (greenlite) is always echoed to the lower address (greenlist). Mail going to the upper address is not sent to it's own list if the word "RE:" appears in the subject line, but echoed to the lower address only, and (if not a member of an exclusion list) the sender is told that their message was not put through to the upper list.
Subscribers get all mail echoed to the list they subscribe to.
Mail always shows the originator of the message in the "From:" line, but has a "Reply-To:" of the list address.
If you just want to announce something to the members of the lists, send it to GreenLite (it will echo to GreenList).
The UNIX specific tools are procmail, formail, sendmail. I got all my information regarding the usage of these tools from the web and the man pages (e.g., "man procmailrc") The more generic filter tools are grep, awk, and shell scripts (UNIX batch files). I got my information from the same places for them.
First, you need to get some "alias" addresses from your ISP, and it would be advisable to get some extra mailboxes (which you may have to pay for) as well. The distinction here is very important. An "alias" mail address is simply a nickname for your real mailbox.
An alternate mailbox is just that: the mail goes to a separate account which is NOT your regular account. You will probably need to use some sort of PPP based mail reader to read the mail from that mailbox (my ISP assures me that is the case).
In my case, I had these resources to draw on:
Second, in my case, I had to inform the mail system about my intentions. I did this by creating a file in my home directory called ".forward" which contains only this one line:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #writch"The quotes are in the above line are real quotes (used in the file). Your usage will probably vary. Mine did.
I then worked out this version of .procmailrc which is the controlling file for the procmail product. It and all it's subsequent links are available through the above link. It lives in my home directory on my ISP as well. I am using a directory off my home called "Mail".
P.S. Don't expect that this code (.procmailrc) is exceptionally clean or pretty. It works. I will perhaps clean it up later.
February 15th, 1997 Version 1.0 Released