Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 20:01:13 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for a Newsletter Mail Program Message-ID: <20000519200113.B6541@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000519195202.A6541@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 07:52:02PM %2B0530 References: <20000519182613.B5984@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190625550.97622-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com> <20000519195202.A6541@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan said on May 19, 2000 at 19:52:02: > > > > 3b) Allow customizeable functionality for people who reply to the list > > > > > > Not sure what you mean by that, esp. as you only want one person to > > > > If a person replies to the email that is sent out by the list, I do not > > want that email re-distributed. > > Most people will think that replying to me is the same as replying to the > > newsletter. So I would like to be able to configure a > > non subscribe/unsubscribe message to the list to either be ignored or be > > treated as an unsubscribe (or whatever I decide in the future). > > Your best bet would be to bcc the list address so that users don't see > it and replies don't go there. Or if you *really* want any mail sent to the list to be treated as an unsubscribe (or some other request), I'm sure it can be done, but you'll need to learn a bit about the syntax of a .qmail alias file. Basically you'll have to set it up to forward/pipe such a mail to the appropriate address/program. R. > Under ezmlm, the list address doesn't handle subscription requests > (nor does it under Majordomo, actually). With ezmlm you create > an account to own the list, say jim, and your list has a particular > name, say mylist, and the list address is jim-mylist@your.domain . > Subscription is done by sending email to > jim-mylist-subscribe@your.domain > and unsubscription by sending email to > jim-mylist-unsubscribe@your.domain > (subject and body unnecessary) and other commands like help, faq likewise. > > Recent versions of pine can recognise the information headers > supplied by ezmlm, so subscribers can use a menu to unsubscribe, > get help, etc. > > As I said earlier, you can have a list where only subscribers are > allowed to post. On looking at a list setup I have here, once it is > set up in that way it looks trivial to modify it so that only one > person can post, and anyone else gets an error message in reply (which > you can make as informative as you like). Quite likely if you dig > into the docs you'll find a more direct way of achieving the same > thing. > > R. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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