I just moved my mail server to a new machine and installed 1.94.3 and
sent out mail to all subscribers about the change. Two comments that may
prove useful to others:
(1) The way in which I send out notices to all subscribers is to combine
all the lists into one, using the (unix) command
sort -u all-subscribers -u -f list1 list2 ....
which insures that each subscriber gets only a single copy of the
announcement, no matter how many lists he or she belongs to. Note that
this can also be used to send messages to any subset of the lists (we
have lots of subscribers who belong to a general list as well as one or
more specialised lists). For safety, use restrict-post to make sure that
no one else can send mail to all-subscribers!
(2) The following script is handy for deleting bad addresses from
multiple lists:
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#!/bin/sh
# Unsubscribe the arguments from all lists
PROG=`basename $0`
DIR=/.../majordomo/Lists
case $# in
0) echo "Nothing done, usage is: $PROG name [...]"
exit 1 ;;
*) cd $DIR
FILES=`\ls | grep -v '\.'`
(
for i
do
for L in `grep -i -l $i $FILES`
do
PASSWORD=`cat $L.passwd`
echo "approve $PASSWORD unsubscribe $L $i"
done
done
echo end
) | Mail majordomo
;;
esac
exit 0
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