Mailinglist Usage

The mailing list software provide a set of commands that the list users can use to

First Time Subscribers

Let us assume that you want to subscribe to a mailing list called example@dotsrc.org.

The first thing you should do is to send an email to the following address: example-subscribe@dotsrc.org. Shortly after you will receive an confirmation request email which you should simply reply to. You should know be subscribed to example@dotsrc.org.

The next you should do is to send an email to example-help@dotsrc.org. This will return an email from Ezmlm with the administrative commands available to you for the example@dotsrc.org mailing list. Some of these will be briefly touched below.

Bounce Handling

If mail to you starts to bounce (if your internet provider is down for some time, the network is unreachable or other problems), then ezmlm will keep track of the messages you missed from the list, and after some time, you will receive a mail describing how to fetch the missed messages from the archive. If mail to you bounces for more than 20 days, you will be removed from the list.

Command Overview

Show the commands available for the example mailing list.

example-subscribe@dotsrc.org
Subscribes the email address the mail came from. A confirmation request mail will be sent and the subscription will not be completed before this is replied.

example-subscribe-user=host.domain@dotsrc.org
With this command you can subscribe an email address different from the one you are sending from. In this case user@host.domain. A confirmation message will be sent to user@host.domain which should simply be replied.

example-list@dotsrc.org
Lists the people subscribed to the example mailing list. This command is typically limited to the mailing list moderator(s).

example-unsubscribe@dotsrc.org
Unsubscribes the email address the mail came from assuming that it was subscribed.

example-unsubscribe-user=host.domain@dotsrc.org
This command can be used to remove a person from the mailing list. In this case user@host.domain. A confirmation message will be sent to user@host.domain which should simply be replied. If the message is not replied the person will not be unsubscribed.

example-get.120140@dotsrc.org
Return messages from 120 to 140 send to the list. Please note that there are a maximum of 100 messages per request.