how about viewing pending requests etc? for subscribers and if posts required approval?

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, jfesler@gigo.com wrote:

...

I was wondering if administration must be done via the web or can administration be done via an email interface. We have a user who wishes a digest list creating for disabled & handicapped users and an email based administrative tool would be useful. if anyone knows how to achieve this, I'd appreciate the info. regards

Much of it can be done by email. Here is a sample from one of the lists I run, after emailing gigo-request@gigo.com with a message body of simply "help".

***** help Help for Gigo mailing list:

This is email command help for version 1.1 of the "Mailman" list manager. The following describes commands you can send to get information about and control your subscription to Mailman lists at this site. A command can be in the subject line or in the body of the message.

Note that much of the following can also be accomplished via the World Wide Web, at:

http://www.gigo.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gigo

In particular, you can use the Web site to have your password sent to your delivery address.

List specific commands (subscribe, who, etc) should be sent to the *-request address for the particular list, e.g. for the 'mailman' list, use 'mailman-request@...'.

About the descriptions - words in "<>"s signify REQUIRED items and words in "[]" denote OPTIONAL items. Do not include the "<>"s or "[]"s when you use the commands.

The following commands are valid:

subscribe [password] [digest-option] [address=<address>]
    Subscribe to the mailing list.  Your password must be given to
    unsubscribe or change your options.  When you subscribe to the
    list, you'll be reminded of your password periodically.
    'digest-option' may be either: 'nodigest' or 'digest' (no
    quotes!)  If you wish to subscribe an address other than the
    address you send this request from, you may specify
    "address=<email address>" (no brackets around the email
    address, no quotes!)

unsubscribe <password> [address]
    Unsubscribe from the mailing list.  Your password must match
    the one you gave when you subscribed.  If you are trying to
    unsubscribe from a different address than the one you

subscribed from, you may specify it in the 'address' field.

who
    See everyone who is on this mailing list.

info
    View the introductory information for this list.

lists
    See what mailing lists are run by this Mailman server.

help
    This message.

set <option> <on|off> <password> 
    Turn on or off list options.  Valid options are:

    ack:
        Turn this on to receive acknowlegement mail when you send
        mail to the list.

    digest:
        Receive mail from the list bundled together instead of one
        post at a time.

    plain:
        Get plain-text, not MIME-compliant, digests (only if
        digest is set)

    nomail:
        Stop delivering mail.  Useful if you plan on taking a
        short vacation.

    norcv:
        Turn this on to NOT receive posts you send to the list.
        Does not work if digest is set.

    hide:
        Conceals your address when people look at who is on this
        list.


options
    Show the current values of your list options.

password <oldpassword> <newpassword> 
    Change your list password.

end or --
   Stop processing commands (good to do if your mailer

automatically adds a signature file - it'll save you from a lot of cruft).

Commands should be sent to gigo-request@gigo.com

Questions and concerns for the attention of a person should be sent to

gigo-admin@gigo.com

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Hi

i've just installed mailman, but unfortunatly it can not send mails. (except mail for the new subscribers, if i put them on the list as administrator) how can i test the $prefix/mail/wrapper program? Is there documentation for it? Or maybe somwhat else is my problem?

thanks a lot

Andras Barton (Hungary)

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