Majordomo Commands
How do I get started using Majordomo?
If you requested a digest when you requested Majordomo on your account, we set you up with 2
lists, the
listname you requested, and the digest version of your list. For example, if your
requested list name is mylist, your digest is mylist-digest.
These list names are not case-sensitive.
After we set up your list, we'll send you an email confirming your list name
and password.
As soon as possible, please issue a "newinfo" command
for your list to create the file that someone will receive when they join or ask
about your list. Everything administrative function with Majordomo is
command-driven, so let's get into that now...
Majordomo Commands
You can issue a who command for your list to see who's already on your list.
You may or may not already be subscribed to your own list.
Your mailing list is managed by an automated mailing list management program
called Majordomo. Majordomo should free you from dealing with most of the
administrivia usually associated with running mailing lists (adding users,
dropping users, etc.).
To submit something to your list, you (or anybody else) should simply mail it
to the list posting address shown at the top of this file.
To be added to your list, a user simply sends a message to majordomo.
address-- To: majordomo@yourdomain.com
message-- subscribe mylist
Majordomo understands several commands, and is not limited to a single
command per message (it will process commands until reaching end-of-message or
the command "end"). The command
help will tell you about all the other commands.
Actually, it won't tell you about all the other commands that
Majordomo understands. There are several commands there for use by list owners
such as yourself, which are not advertised to the public. All of these commands
are password-protected on a list-by-list basis, but anyone with a valid
list/password combination can invoke these commands. This is not exactly
high-tech security, but it's more intended to keep annoyance to a minimum than
to be foolproof.
The "documented" commands which Majordomo understands and which are for
everyone to use are:
subscribe mylist [address]
unsubscribe mylist [address]
which [address]
who mylist
info mylist
index mylist
get mylist
lists
help
end
You can get detailed explanations of all of these by asking for help from Majordomo
(send a message containing just the word help as the message text to
majordomo@yourdomain.com).
Additional Commands
The "undocumented" commands for use by list owners are:
approve [password] {subscribe|unsubscribe} mylist [address]
This is so that you can approve subscription or unsubscription actions that
need approval by the list owner. Note that this is just a standard "subscribe"
or "unsubscribe" command prefixed with "approve [password]".
approve [password] who mylist
This allows you to get the list of addresses for your anonymous list. Without
the password, even the list owner can not see who is on the list.
passwd mylist [password] [new_passwd]
This is so you can change the password for your list, if you desire.
newinfo mylist [password]
This is so that you can replace the information file that people get when
they do info mylist or subscribe mylist. It reads everything after
the "newinfo" command to end-of-message or the word "EOF" on a line by itself as the
new info for the list.
config mylist [password]
Retrieves a self-documenting configuration file for the list mylist. The
[password] can be the password contained in the file mylist.passwd or the
admin_password in the configuration file.
newconfig mylist [password]
Validates and installs a new configuration file. It reads everything after
the newconfig" command to end-of-message or the word "EOF" on a line by itself
as the new info for the list. The config file is expected to be a complete
config file as returned by "config". Incremental changing of the config file is
not yet supported. As soon as the config file is validated and installed its
settings are available for use. This is useful to remember if you have multiple
commands in your mail message since they will be subject to the settings of the
new config file. If there is an error in the config file (incorrect value...),
the config file will not be accepted and the error message identifying the
problem line(s) will be returned to the sender. Note that only the error
messages are returned to the sender not the entire config file, so it would be a
good idea to keep a copy of your outgoing email message.
writeconfig mylist [password]
Write a new config file in standard form. Writeconfig forces a rewrite of the
config file with all comments and default values in place. It is useful to use
after an upgrade of majordomo since it will add the new keywords for people to
change. It also updates the documentation in the file if that has changed.
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