----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Litt <slitt@PROTECTED>
To: Dada Mail Developers Subscriber <banjoboy89@PROTECTED>
Sent: Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 9:06:15 AM
Subject: Re: How to set up dadamail as a discussion list <SOLVED>


Thanks Carl,

dada_bridge.pl was indeed the answer. Thank you!

The docs for dada_bridge.pl usage could use a little improvement. For
instance, I assumed that because I'm using the dadamail advanced installation
(using $HOME/.dada_files/.configs/.dada_config), I could uncomment the
Discussion Lists portion and have Discussion lists appear in the plugins.
However, the only way I could see Discussion Lists in the plugins was to
uncomment that same code in $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/DADA/Config.pm.
It's true the docs say that's where you should uncomment it, but I think a
sentence saying that even though your config is in
$HOME/.dada_files/.configs/.dada_config, you must still uncomment it in
$HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/DADA/Config.pm. Either that, or change the
code so uncommenting it in $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/DADA/Config.pm
enables the plugin.

My web host gives me ssh access, but not access to crontab. So I had to make
my own poor man's cron, run from the ssh command line:

#!/usr/bin/sh
#my_date=$(date)
/usr/bin/curl  -s --get --data run=1\;passcode=\;verbose=0  --url
http://www.a3b3.com/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl
sleep 150
$0 &

The preceding replaces (forks) itself with a different PID every 2.5 minutes,
thereby getting around the fact that the web host terminates processes
lasting more than 5 minutes. What a kludge! :-)

Do you think having it run every 2.5 minutes imposes an unacceptable load on
my web-host's server? When the list is enabled, it will have about 100
subscribers and 10-30 posts per day.

I need to configure it so it doesn't email me (the list owner) every time it
sends an email. Then I need to load up the list and test it to make sure it
can perform well enough in my web-host's environment.

Thanks for all your help. This is a pretty cool piece of software, and I might
write an article about it on Troubleshooters.Com.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US


On Tuesday 12 August 2008 01:51, Carl G. Kuczun wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>
> Dadamail uses some add-ons for some features.  The one you want for
> discussion lists is the Dada Bridge.  For information, start here:
>
>
> http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-dada-3_0_0/dada_bridge.pl.
>html
>
>
> Carl
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt@PROTECTED>
> To: "Dada Mail Developers Subscriber" <ckuczun@PROTECTED>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:31 AM
> Subject:  How to set up dadamail as a discussion list
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed dadamail, but it has no "post to" address so it can't be used
> > as a
> > discussion list. I know it's possible to configure as a discussion list
> > because the Dada Mail Developers list has dadadev@PROTECTED as
> > a post-to address. How does one configure dadamail to be a discussion
> > list?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > Recession Relief Package
> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> >
> >
> >
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