Mail List Problem

[Curtis]

Is that possible to let "user-level" guy upload their email list (text file) to the specify folder thru FTP and make the mail list work?

just like the qmail function.

Thanks!

 

[toml]

No, the permissions to the directories where the list file goes, will not let a regular user upload there. You could send the list to the Admin and they should be able to move it to the right place.

IA nice feature to add would be to allow bulk additions. I believe there is a way to do that using the majorodomo commands (sending an email to [email protected]):

approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]

It puts a little load on the server, but it should get the job done.

 

[Curtis]

No, the permissions to the directories where the list file goes, will not let a regular user upload there. You could send the list to the Admin and they should be able to move it to the right place.

IA nice feature to add would be to allow bulk additions. I believe there is a way to do that using the majorodomo commands (sending an email to [email protected]):

approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]
approve password subscribe-quiet mylist [email][email protected][/email]

It puts a little load on the server, but it should get the job done.

Thanks for your help. But i still donno the step exactly.
Do you mean users can add mail to the list by email?

 

[toml]

Thanks for your help. But i still donno the step exactly.
Do you mean users can add mail to the list by email?

Users can add themselves, but only if you have an "open" list. If your list is closed, you can send the commands I mentioned. So for example lets say you have a list named funlist at the domain laughs.com and the administrative password was whoopie, you could add the user [email protected] by sending an email to [email protected] with the body of the email containing

approve whoopie subscribe-quiet funlist [email][email protected][/email]

 

[Curtis]

Users can add themselves, but only if you have an "open" list. If your list is closed, you can send the commands I mentioned. So for example lets say you have a list named funlist at the domain laughs.com and the administrative password was whoopie, you could add the user [email protected] by sending an email to [email protected] with the body of the email containing

approve whoopie subscribe-quiet funlist [email][email protected][/email]

i tried but failed. it replied the following message:

>>>> approve list.admin subscribe-quiet [email protected] [email protected]
**** approve: invalid command 'subscribe-quiet'

 

[toml]

I guess the subscribe-quiet command is not available. You should be able to replace that with subscribe. The -quiet was supposed to prevent the welcome email from being sent.

 

[Curtis]

I guess the subscribe-quiet command is not available. You should be able to replace that with subscribe. The -quiet was supposed to prevent the welcome email from being sent.

You're right. Thanks for help.
By the way, command would be no function when sent with MS Outlook even in plain text mode

 

[nobaloney]

I guess the subscribe-quiet command is not available. You should be able to replace that with subscribe. The -quiet was supposed to prevent the welcome email from being sent.

I've been using majordomo for over 10 years (I used to be as active on the majordomo users list as I am here) and I've never heard of subscribe-quiet. Where did you find it?

Of course majordomo is open source, and written in perl, so anyone can add a command if they want.

Jeff

 

[toml]

I don't normally use the email commands to something that takes me 3 seconds to with vi when I am logged in my server. I found this http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/fmd/unix/docs/mail/lists/md-listowner-admmail.html and can't say I really tried the command. I kinda assumed it was there. After he said it did not work, I looked into the source code and noticed that it wasn't there and the folks at the link above must have made a change.