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5.1 How can I create mailing list?

5.2 Managing mailing lists.

5.3 How can I close my mailing list for some people?

5.4 How can I make all subscribers to receive my reply to a letter in mailing list (not only letter’s author)?

5.5 Where can I find out more information on mailing list parameters?

5.1 How can I create mailing list?
You should click "List management" button in Site Management section (www.yourdomain/siteadmin) then click "Add mailing list" and create new Internet mailing list (for example, with a name test). Register subscribers’ emails for your list (every email on a new line). Now every message sent to the address: test@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to all subscribers.
If you have checked "Allow Unsubscribed Posting to List" then everybody can send his/her messages to this list even who are not subscribed.
You can manually subscribe / unsubscribe users and also you can automate this process.
For automatic subscription / unsubscription check "Allow User Subscriptions to List".
In this case a subscriber has to send a message to the address: majordomo@yourdomain.com to subscribe to list and write:

‘subscribe namelist’

in a body (not in subject!) of the message
namelist - is a name of your list (in our example is test).

To unsubscribe, please write in the body of your message:

unsubscribe namelist

You can receive more detailed help about all Majordomo commands. Please send a message to: Majordomo@www.yourdomain.com and write word ‘help’ in the body of your message.

5.2 Managing mailing lists.
To change list parameters send a message to the address: majordomo@yourdomain.com and type a command in body of your message.

• The most important commands:

  To change password of the list:
  passwd list-name old-password new-password
  (Everyone, who knows the password, can change parameters of a list)
  For example:
  passwd test test test123

  You can change a list password in Control Panel.
  To write new comment for your list (it is sent together with the note that you are subscribed to this list and also to the command info)
  newinfo list-name password
  The new description
  EOF
  For example:
  newinfo test test
  This is new information for the "test" list.
  EOF
  info test



• To receive a configuration file of the list (it includes A LOT of information with comments!)
  config list-name password
  For example:
  config test test


• To write down a new configuration file of the list (Attention! If you upload configuration file with mistakes, you can break normal work of the list! If the program "is swearing" when you upload a new configuration file please write about an error to support@mastak.ru)
  newconfig list password
  Contents of a configuration file
  EOF
  For example:
  newconfig test test
  # The configuration file for a majordomo mailing list.
  . . .
  message_footer << END
  Internet mailing list of a site www.test.com | Admin: test@test.com
  END
  . . .

5.3 How can I close my mailing list for some people?
Everyone can write to your list by default if he /she subscribe. (If you check "Allow Unsubscribed Posting to List" then everybody can send their messages to this list, even who are not subscribed). If you want to moderate the sent messages for your list, you have to change two lines in configuration file:
# moderate [bool] (no) <resend>
# If yes, all postings to the list must be approved by the
# moderator.
moderate = yes

# moderator [word] (undef) <resend>
# Send bounces to moderator instead of owner-<listname>
moderator = moderator@yourdomain.com
set up
moderate = yes
and in moderator line type in moderator email.

How does it work?
If someone tries to send a message to the list, it comes to moderator, which task is "to approve" this message. For this purpose he has to specify FIRST line
Approved: your_password
and sent this message to the list.

That's all! Moderator may delete letters which are "not approved".
If moderator knows email of those who has the right to write to list, he can act easier. There is a parameter restrict_post in configuration file. It points to a file, where all users who can write to list are listed. When new users subscribes to the mailing list, this file is situated together with parameters and replenishes automatically by default. You can create the file with the email addresses listing of people who can post to the mailing list. You have to register a complete path to this file in a configuration file. For example, we create a file "test" in root directory of your site (mydomain.com) and write there two emails of users, who will post to the mailing list:

email1@mail.ru
email2@bk.ru
Now we edit configuration file (! turn off sending a request to moderator: moderate = no):
. . .
# restrict_post [restrict_post] (shmod) <resend>
# If defined, only addresses listed in these files (colon or space
# separated) can post to the mailing list. By default, these files
# are relative to the lists directory. These files are also checked
# when get_access, index_access, info_access, intro_access,
# which_access, or who_access is set to 'list'. This is less useful
# than it seems it should be since there is no way to create these
# files if you do not have access to the machine running resend.
# This mechanism will be replaced in a future version of
# majordomo/resend.
restrict_post = /home/sites/www.mydomain.com/test
. . .
moderate = no
And now we save our configuration file.

5.4 How can I make all subscribers to receive my reply to a letter in mailing list (not only letter’s author)?
If someone responds to a letter, an answer goes to the sender, not to all subscribers by default. Sometimes, for large debate, it's a good idea to make an answer send to all subscribers. For this purpose edit the following parameter in configuration file:
reply_to
Sample of configuration file:
# reply_to [word] () <resend,digest>
# Put a reply-to header with value <value> into the outgoing
# message. If the token $SENDER is used, then the address of the
# sender is used as the value of the reply-to header. This is the
# value of the reply-to header for digest lists.
reply_to = test@mydomain.com

5.5 Where can I find out more information on mailing list parameters?
Check up majordomo official site: http://greatcircle.com/majordomo/

View also:

1. General Questions
2. Technical questions
3. FTP client, FTP File Upload
4. E-Mail
5. E-Mail opt-in lists*
6. CGI Scripts
7. File .htaccess, passwords
8. Databases

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