Managing and Customizing Your ezmlm-idx Mailing List
Posted on 10 December 2003 08:54 AM
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Many customizations can be made to your ezmlm-idx mailing lists by using the CNC Mailing Lists Manager. For example, the CNC makes it easy to modify the subject lines and body text of your administrative messages, add a subject prefix to all messages sent to the list, and add a footer ("trailer text") to outgoing messages. Note: Legacy ("ezmlm") lists are no longer supported. If you have a legacy list, you can convert it to the newer ezmlm-idx software by using the CNC Mailing Lists Manager. (Legacy lists are marked with "legacy ezmlm" when viewing the lists on the main CNC Mailing Lists page.) The following guides explain how to work with your lists manually and are recommended only for Advanced users: Adding, Removing, and Viewing Subscribers Banning Certain Addresses From Subscribing Open the file named manager, either with the text editor in your CNC or a text editor on your local machine. Add the following as the very first line to that file: Blocking Certain Addresses From Posting Open the file named editor, either with the text editor in your CNC or a text editor on your local machine. Add the following as the very first line to that file: Warning: If you make manual modifications to your mailing list files, your changes may be overwritten (ie lost) in the future if you edit the list properties using the CNC Mailing List Manager. Blocking Executable Attachments Open the file named editor, either with the text editor in your CNC or a text editor on your local machine. Add the following as the very first line to that file: .BAT, .CHM, .COM, .EXE, .HLP, .HTA, .LNK, .PIF, .REG, .SCR, .SHS, .VBE, .VBS, .WSF, .WSH IMPORTANT: When testing, remember to send the email with the exe attachment from an email account that is not blocking .exe attachments itself. Otherwise, you will not receive the bounce. (As always, testing should only be done on a non-production list.) Warning: If you make manual modifications to your mailing list files, your changes may be overwritten (ie lost) in the future if you edit the list properties using the CNC Mailing List Manager. Changing Public List to Private All existing users will remain subscribed, but new subscribers will have to be manually added via SSH (or through the CNC) - (see ezmlm-sub under Adding, Removing, or Viewing Subscribers). Additionally, subscribers will not have access to the administrative email requests, such as the list-help@lists.domain.tld request nor the requests for retrieving messages from the list archives (for lists maintaining archives). Modifying Owner Address To change this behavior and have the "owner" emails sent to a different address, you will need to modify the file named owner which is located within the mailing list's directory: In the owner file, change ONLY the email address in the line that looks like: &listowner@example.com Replace the listowner@example.com part with the email address where you wish to have the "owner" email sent. Make sure that you only change that part and that you leave the & sign! When finished, save and upload the revised file (if you didn't use the CNC). Note that you may want to make a backup of the original first, renaming it to something like owner.bak.Now whenever a user sends a message to listname-owner@lists.yourdomain.tld, it will be forwarded automatically to your own email box. You may want to set up a special mailbox for this, for example: More Information | |
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