I've had a few questions asked of me on how to configure your Mailman list subscription. Below is a message which I hope you guys save for future reference in case you get lost. For this small tutorial we will assume that your email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you are managing your subscription to [email protected] list. For this tutorial you will use the password loser which is in all lower-case.
First and foremost let me say that using the web interface is by far the easiest since all buttons, checkboxes, and edit boxes speak very well with speech and also have extra help telling you what the options mean. So, there is lesson number 1. Use the web interface located at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. Here you can subscribe, unsubscribe, go nomail, return from nomail, set digest on or off, change your list password, change list message languages, and a few other things which I very likely forgot but are not as important. Lesson 2, using email. If you just want to make a quick change/update to your list settings and you do not want to use the web interface then the most common email address is the request address. In this case it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] When this address is used you can do all those things I mentioned above in lesson 1. Before I get into the nitty gritty details of the request address let me add that if you just want to subscribe or unsubscribe you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] respectively. In both cases you will get a confirmation email asking you to confirm you really want to do this. This happens for two reasons, first is in case you were just playing around and did not mean it and second is in case someone forged your email address trying to add or remove you from the list without your permission. Again, using the request address you can do all this and a lot more. The subscribe and unsubscribe address are just a quick, no hoopla way of doing it but are not as flexible. Ok, now onto lesson 2, using the request box. The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] In most cases you can put your command in just the subject line but I really recommend you just put a period or two in the subject and instead put all your commands in the body of the message. Please try to remember and end all your commands with the word 'end' without the quotes. This will tell Mailman to not try and process your nice signature. The first thing you can do if you want to read Mailman's help file on using request is send a help command. So the body of your message would look like this: help end This will return an email to you explaining everything I'm telling you here but not as friendly and warm like the way I am <smile>. If you want to subscribe to the list and you want to choose your own list password then you would type in the body something like this: subscribe loser end What happens here is that Mailman subscribes the address in the from ffield and sets the list password to loser. I know it looks like you are trying to tell Mailman to subscribe someone named loser but I can assure you that you are simply telling it the password. If you subscribe via the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address or if you do not specify a password like the above example then Mailman will randomly choose a password for you which you can change later on. Speaking of passwords If you want to make any changes to your list settings you must first authenticate yourself to the request account when making further changes like going nomail, switching to digest mode, etc. Simply send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], again put two periods or something equally meaningless in the subject and in the body do something like: authenticate loser set delivery off end Ok, first line authenticates you to Mailman, your from address and your password will be matched together and if it is a good match then Mailman will see you want to set your delivery to off. Then you end the commands with end of course. This has the effect of putting you in nomail mode. This is good if you will not be reading your email for an extended period of time. When you come back you simply issue a command like this to the request email box: authenticate loser set delivery on end This as you can tell will place you back in delivery mode to receive emails. If you want to see what your current settings are you send an email to the request box with the commands: set show end What this will do is send you back your current list settings. Note for this you don't need a password. This is because you are just viewing the settings. To change any setting you must use the authenticate line. You will get a reply from request and in the email you will see something like: Your current option settings: ack off digest off delivery on myposts on hide off duplicates off reminders on For the most part you can leave these the way they are. If you really want to know what they mean then I suggest reading the help provided with the 'set help' command which gives you a detailed description of what these are. Again, back to lesson 1, all these are better explained via the web <smile>. If you want to change your password you simply send a message to request with the body looking like this: password loser winner end Note, here you did not need to use the authenticate line, again, you only use the authenticate line when changing one of the options found under set. As you can tell you provide your current password followed by the old one. If you simply type in the body: password end You will get an email telling you what your password is. Well, that about does it. Hope you will be clear on using Mailman. It really is a wonderful mailing list system. If you are still reading this message at this point please understand that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. -- Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. -- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
