Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:52:02 +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: <20000519195202.A6541@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190625550.97622-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>; from jim@freeze.org on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:36:11AM -0700 References: <20000519182613.B5984@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190625550.97622-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
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> > > 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. 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
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