Do you know how to use the Mailing Lists feature?

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SupermanInNY

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Hi there,

If you ever looked at the Mailing list feature (using the Majordomo List Manager), you will find lots of options to choose when creating a mailing list.

Unforturnatly, there is little or practically none help/support or explanations on what each option is, what it can do, what would enabling/disableing, selecting it will do.

If anyone has a brief summary of what the various options are, I would appreciate it.

Ultimatly, we want a very simple configuration:

One admin of the group, can send messages to anyone in the group.
The group CANNOT reply, CANNOT post to the board.

The group can only do Subscribe/Unsubscribe.

Very simple, nothing beyond that.

More clearly it would help to get a small brief explanation on each of the fields:

Digest Issue: 1
What does that mean? What is the Digest mode mean?
Aggregate message?
Send all messages in one day?
Send message only on Day one of the month?

There are various fields just with the Digest option:

Digest Issue
Digest Volume
Digest MaxDays
Digest MaxLines

Later, there are options for Access:

Get Access
Index Access
Info Access
Intro Access
Which Access
Who Access

Wow.. blow me away... cause here comes a new word for me:

Mungedomain

and of course there are other options I have not put in here.

Could someone writeup a Help file that is really helpful and talks about what the purpose of each option is?

I tried to get some info from the Majordomo usergroup and they basically told me to "go buy the majordomo manual".

Anyone up to the challange of compiling a DirectAdmin Guide to the Majordomo control panel using DirectAdmin?

-Alon.
 
SupermanInNY said:


Anyone up to the challange of compiling a DirectAdmin Guide to the Majordomo control panel using DirectAdmin?

-Alon.
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Hi maybe you could write it?

:)

Rob
 
I wouldn't mind.. if I had a clue of what they mean.

As I said, I tried posting in the Majordomo users group, but got the cold sholder on asking.

So perhaps someone could throw in a pointer about one field.. another person on another field,.. and so on and so on.. at least that will get this somewhere.

-Alon.
 
I have to say that I do agree with you that it does seem pretty 'jargonny' - I had a quick google on various terms but did not seem to find a suitable site.

We recently made a free version of our email marketing system available to DA users - you can use that if you think it's suitable..

I'll put a link in the 3rd party forum for you to check if you're interested - it may or may not suit your needs.

I'll come back and add the link here in a minute :)

EDIT: Heres the forum link: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7307

Rob
 
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You might want to also check out the majordomo section of my download section.

At the very least you should read a copy of the sample list-owner-info file I've posted here.

Jeff
 
One admin of the group, can send messages to anyone in the group.
The group CANNOT reply, CANNOT post to the board.

The group can only do Subscribe/Unsubscribe.
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If only one admin can post, put his email in Restrict post

if the group can only subscribe/unsubscribe, put subscribe policy and unsubscribe policy to "open" and all xxx access to closed

Do note that moderate must be no (save if there is a moderator for the mails of admin) and that "Welcome" to "yes" means that a welcome email will be automatically send to new subscriber.
 
koudou said:
If only one admin can post, put his email in Restrict post

if the group can only subscribe/unsubscribe, put subscribe policy and unsubscribe policy to "open" and all xxx access to closed

Do note that moderate must be no (save if there is a moderator for the mails of admin) and that "Welcome" to "yes" means that a welcome email will be automatically send to new subscriber.
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Hi Koudou,

we are trying to work your instructions.
Stupid question that came fast:

Who is the administrator of the mailing list?
There is only a Moderator field,... and the weired part is ,. there is "Admin Password" and "Approve Password", but no Admin Email... or Admin Account.

Better yet,. what or where is the password of the Admin Password is going to be used? or Approved?

Thanks for the input on this.

-Alon.
 
The administrator is whomever you want it to be.

Anyone can administrate majordomo from any email account as long as s/he uses the password.

The administrator email address is simply the address you want it to be; if you want only one person to be able to post, put his address in the restrict post field.

I suggest you read the entire majordomo documentation. Start here.

Jeff
 
I understand the reaction of jlasman : it is pretty impossible to give a whole course on majordomo within a forum.

And I fully agree with his advice about reading the documentation...

But, as this forum will stay online, and because your questions have no answer up to date on the forum, I will make the effort to reply (even if my english is not so good: nobody is perfect).

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What we call the admin is in fact the person who will manage the list. There is no email to give, just because DA uses the default.
If the list is inside the domain mydomain.com and the list name is mylist, the admin mail is
[email protected]

If your domain hosting has a configuration where nobody receives emails sent to [email protected], too bad: all administration messages will be lost.

These messages include bounces (i.e. a message sent to the list has not been accepted for reasons like attachment too big, not allowed to post, new subscriber, etc...)

To add a new subscriber, I suggest to create a web form and a perl script called by the form.
This script should send an email to [email protected] (any subject) with a text line like

approve approve.password subscribe mylist [email protected]

With DA, you can change approve.password to what you want.

Be careful with the "moderator". If you moderate, somebody will probably loose his nerves (moderator because so many emails to approve or user because his mail will not arrive before a loooong delay).

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May I suggest that you create a message footer reminding how to unsubscribe, like

To unsusbcribe from mylist, send an email with your email to [email protected] with only one line of text :
unsubscribe mylist

( of course, replace mydomain.com and mylist with the right values)
 
Hi Michel,

Thank you very much for taking the time answer me with the examples.

It appears that about 99% of all questions in the forum are non mailing-lists related and the focus is on different subject.

We will try to implement your suggestions tomorrow (I'm working with my end user on this) and hopefully we will be able to finally get this going correctly.

I appreciate the help on this.

Thanks,

-Alon.
 
Hi superman,

you are welcome.

About 99% of questions not about mailing lists, this is normal : mailing lists is less than 0,1% of the problems and the figures should be 99,9% of questions not about mialing lists !

Please do understand that most of people on the forum are just people like you : they could be students or professionnals, but they help the others on their leisure time.

This time, I am the one for you, but in the future, I hope you would be the one for somebody else ... This is the way it works !
 
Thanks Michael for answering about specific issues with Majordomo running on DA.

Jeff
 
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