Home > Help Files > Mail > Mailing List Help File: Mailing List [Common Commands] | [List Owner Commands] | [Examples] | [Request New List] The mailing list manager used by DECF is majordomo. Commands should be in the body of the message. Commands in the "Subject" lines are ignored. Send commands to majordomo@me.berkeley.edu or majordomo@newton.berkeley.edu Common Commands help Get a complete list of all majordomo commands subscribe <listname> <email> (e.g. subscribe test user@newton.berkeley.edu) Subscribe to mailing list listname. unsubscribe <listname> <email> (e.g. unsubscribe test user@newton.berkeley.edu) Unubscribe given email from mailing list listname. info <listname> Request the general introductory information for listname who <listname> Get a list of subscribers to listname which <email> Request to know to which lists you have subscribed to. If email is given, reuqest to know to which lists email is subscribed. List Owner Commands approve <list-password> subscribe <listname> <email-address> Subscrbe email-address to listname approve <list-password> unsubscribe <listname> <email-address> Unsubscrbe email-address from listname Sending message to moderated list as list owner If you as owner/moderator wish to send a message directly to the mailing list from yourself, simply make the first line of the message the "Approved: password" and then place one line space between the password line and the first line of the message. For example: To: listname@newton.berkeley.edu Subject: the subject of message Approved: your-approval-password This is a test of the public broadcast sytem. Approving Messages Add the line "Approved: approval-password" to the very first line of the body, and then the entire contents of the original message. (meaning there should not be a blank line before and after the "Approved:" line.). Don't forget to edit out the all headers except for everything after the From line. Note that there are all message headers should start at the beginning of a line. For people using Pine, you can forward the message to yourself and edit it. For other mail clients, you need to copy and paste message. For example: To: listname@newton.berkeley.edu Subject: doesn't matter Approved: your-approval-password >From user@newton.berkeley.edu Tue Jan 28 10:00:16 2003 Received: from relay1.decf.berkeley.edu (relay1.DECF.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.204.213]) by maxwell.berkeley.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0SI0G913786 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:00:16 -0800 From: user Subject: this is a test To: listname@newton.berkeley.edu This is a test of the public broadcast system Examples 1. Here's a sample mail message which will subscribe you to the test mailing list: To: majordomo@newton.berkeley.edu Subject: subscribe test test@newton.berkeley.edu

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