Redwood Internet Guide

Majordomo - Advanced

To change your info message:

    newinfo test-list pswd

    Your message.

This will add to the message everyone sees when they subscribe. It will also be used if a customer requests info on a list. Note the blank line between welcome and Blah, blah, blah. Also note that you can not include any other commands with this command. Of course, the info message can be many lines.

To change your password:

    passwd test-list old-password new-password

Will change your password from the old-password to the new-password.

To get a list of the subscribers:

    approve pswd who test-list

To post a message to your moderated list:

Posting a message with the following text at the beginning will work.

Approved: passwd
From: fsanford@sanfordandson.org (Fred Sanford)
To: test-list@sandfordandsun.org
Subject: Antiques

Message begins here.  (Note the blank space.)

To change the reply-to field:

Send the command config test-list pswd to get a copy of your self-documenting configuration file.

You will find the area that contains the reply-to field.

Update this field and then send the command newconfig test-list pswd followed by your new configuration file.

To learn more about Majordomo:

General help file:

You can also type man majordomo at the shell prompt to get very detailed information about this listserver.