Digest settings mailing list

[Willem]

Hi there,
I created a mailing list in DA. In that list, I made some regular subscribers and some digest subscribers. I sent a mail to the list, it reached the regular subscribers, but not the digest-ones. I tried to change the settings (digest issue, digest volume, digest maxdays and digest maxlines), without succes though.

Can anybody please tell me what settings do I need to fill in. I'm looking for a possibility that digest members can receive the postst every day, 2 days, ... week etc.

Thanks,

Willem

 

[NoBaloney2]

DirectAdmin uses Majordomo. While DirectAdmin's interface does a good job of setting up Majordomo, there's a lot more help available:

From the official majordomo site:

http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/README
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html

From my site:

http://www.nobaloney.net/downloads/majordomo/readme.txt
http://www.nobaloney.net/downloads/majordomo/sample-list-owner-info

Or you can install Mailman (a much more advanced mailing list manager) in DirectAdmin; search these forums.

Jeff

 

[Willem]

Digest

Hi,
thanks for your answer. I already visited the links you sent, but they didn't give me the answers I need. What do I have to fill in to get the digest to sent the messages i.e. once a week? I tried to fill in several values in the fields "digest max days", without proper result though.

Please help me....
Willem

 

[NoBaloney2]

My problem in responding is I would write here exactly what's in those files, especially the list-owner-info file. Some settings may not be changeable from inside DirectAdmin; Majordomo was designed to be managed by email.

For example, the last paragraph of the list-owner-info file:

A daily digest (or for some other time period) could be achieved by
setting the max_length high enough so as not to be reached normally in
a day, and then having the Majordomo owner set up a job to run
daily that sends mail to Majordomo with the mkdigest command.

Do you need to learn how to set up a cronjob to send an email to majordomo?

If the server belongs to you, then this is a simple system administration task which you can and probably should learn how to do yourself, or perhaps hire one of the systems administrators who post on these forums (I come to mind ) to do the job for you.

or google use cron to send an email.

Jeff

 

[Willem]

Digest

Hi Jeff,
thanks again.
I tried to force majordomo to send out a digest, using the command :

mkdigest test-digest xxxx.admin and send it to [email protected]

Majordomo answered:

mkdigest test-digest xxxx.admin
$* is no longer supported at /etc/virtual/majordomo/digest line 305.
mj_digest: ABORT
shlock: '/etc/virtual/majordomo/lists' does not exist

I looks to me that my host got some things not properly installed on its server, or?

Willem

 

[NoBaloney2]

I really don't know; I haven't used anything in Majordomo in many years. None of my clients are complaining; maybe they don't use digests. The one mailing list I run, the announce list for new versions of DirectAdmin, doesn't offer a digest; since there's only one new post when a new version of DirectAdmin comes out, it would be pointless.

You might want to ask questions on the majordomo-users mailing list.

Jeff