Mailing Lists

[D9R]

Majordomo itself doesn't care, but the method you use to add email addresses may.

These are all valid address forms for Majordomo:

John Smith <[email protected]>
[email protected]
[email protected] (John Smith)
"John Smith" <[email protected]>

but the last example in the list is NOT acceptable to the DirectAdmin screen for adding addresses.

Full documentation for majordomo can be found at:
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/

Jeff

What about using special characters -- will they cause any problems? I'm thinking mainly of '/' and '&':

Smith John/Jan <[email protected]>
Smith John & Jan <[email protected]>

 

[nobaloney]

As I already wrote:

Majordomo itself doesn't care, but the method you use to add email addresses may.

The method you use for adding addresses may need to add an escape character (the \ character) before any "special characters" when writing to the majordomo mailing list.

We only add the actual email address; never anything else.

As always, test, test, test.

Jeff

 

[D9R]

Thanks for that quick reply.

I like to include the person's name along with the email address because then the list is sorted by name, making it easy to look up specific people to find out whether they are subscribed.

I'm using the DirectAdmin control panel, and the '&' sign hasn't caused any problems yet that I'm aware of. I was thinking of switching to using the '/' instead because it's easier to read -- it makes the names more compact. But maybe I should just play it safe and write the names without any characters like this:

Instead of:
Smith John & Jan <[email protected]>

Maybe this would be better:
Smith JohnJan <[email protected]>

 

[nobaloney]

Majordomo is written in Perl. Since I haven't studied the source code in years I have no idea what kind of quoting it uses, so I have no idea if it needs the escape code or not. Finding out could be your job .

Jeff

 

[rldev]

MAilman and dump Majordomo once and for all.

 

[icepick]

import

Hey Guys,

I've got a webdesign customer thats moving all their sites from their current provider to me, however their mailing lists have a lot of data and i'm wondering how to do the following:

1./ Import a whole list of email addresses so she doesnt have to input each one.

2./ One of her mailing lists changes every quarter (Tennis club) so she would need to be able to upload the mailing list herself every quarter.

Her current provider supports this and is using the same majordoma, so wonder if anyone knows of a plugin, or how we could get this added to DA?

 

[icepick]

feature request

Hi,

Any chance of moving the files in /etc/virtual/$domain/majordomo/lists/ to the user directory with user permissions so 1 could upload / change the list of users.

i.e.

/home/admin/domains/$domain/mailinglists/$listname

For example, I have a user that needs to update the list every quarter as it's for a tennis club and junior member lists change all the time, same with senior and for the committee so a simple way for updating / changing the list would be great.

Thanks
Barry

 

[nobaloney]

I haven't tested it but you can probably move the file, and create a link where it is now.

And of course you'd have to give rights to both the majordomo program and your user. You can do this by creating a new group and making them both members of that group, and then making the file owned by that group.

I've neither looked nor tested, so you're on your own.

Jeff

 

[albatroz]

What will this allow, disallow?

I would like that only one person (me) be capable of posting emails to a list

Hello,

I think you should be able to set "Moderated" to "no" in the list setup. Also, you could change list owner by changing the following files:

/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo/list.aliases
/etc/virtual/domain.com/majordomo/private.aliases

John

 

[nobaloney]

albatroz,

The easiest way to set up a Majordomo list is to set it up as a moderated list. But then you'll have to properly use the moderator password every time you post, and whenever someone else posts, it'll get sent to you and you can just ignore it.

Have you read the sample list-owner-info file here?

Jeff

 

[albatroz]

What I did was follow a tip... posted somewhere in the forums...

Create a new dummy list and include there the name of the people authorized to post in my list. Then restricted the posting capabilities to the email addresses included in that file

 

[D9R]

Approving moderated lists
First, could someone either explain in simple terms how to approve a moderated list, or post a link to where it's explained well? I've tried and tried doing as the instructions say, but am still missing something.

Mailman vs Majordomo
Second, it sounds like Mailman is "better" than Majordomo. Is that true? Is DirectAdmin going to start having Mailman preinstalled? Or, should I ask my webhost to install it for me? I'm a reseller so I don't think I can install it myself.

 

[toml]

Approving moderated lists
First, could someone either explain in simple terms how to approve a moderated list, or post a link to where it's explained well? I've tried and tried doing as the instructions say, but am still missing something.

It can get a bit tricky. There are a couple of ways to approve a message. one is to add an Approved: header with the majordomo password, another is to add Approved: with the password as the first line and send the message back to the list. There is another way, but it requires shell access, and other settings.

Mailman vs Majordomo
Second, it sounds like Mailman is "better" than Majordomo. Is that true? Is DirectAdmin going to start having Mailman preinstalled? Or, should I ask my webhost to install it for me? I'm a reseller so I don't think I can install it myself.

They take different approaches, to do similar things. If you like Mailman, contact your admin and have them install it, there is nothing stopping you from doing that.