Francis,
dont forget to warn your users that when they hit reply, all subscribers
will receive message, not the sender.
Walt
At 06:43 PM 6/1/03, you wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:16 -0400, Ken Bedell wrote:
>
>> I have majordomo set up so it seems to be serving lists, but I can't
>> figure out three things that it seems should be obvious.
>>
>> 1) I want the reply to: header to have the name of the group so that
>> when someone hits reply in their mail reader the message goes to the
>> list. It seemed to me that I should be able to accomplish this by
>> putting $LIST in the reply_to variable in the group.config file.
>
>Try the actual list address instead:
>
>reply_to = listname@wherever.com
>
>> 2) Then I want the subject of every message to New Connection: followed
>> by the subject that the sender used. Again it seemed to me that I
>> should be able to make this happen by using the variable subject_prefix.
>
>That is done like this:
>
>subject_prefix = [listname]
>
>However, I've had trouble using strings with spaces. If you're aiming at
>"New Connection", try "NewConnection" instead. The brackets I've shown
>above are optional, but are a common way of doing it.
>
>> 3) Then I want to have printed at the bottom of every message
>> information about a website where people can sign up for additional
>> mailing lists. It seems that I should put this information into the
>> message_footer variable.
>
>That is done in a perl "here" statement, like this:
>
>message_footer << END
>-
>Visit the Whatever Web Site at http://www.whatever.com
>For removal instructions see http://www.whatever.com/lists.html
>-
>END
>
>The "-" prints a blank line. The message_footer works fine in a plain
>text message but doesn't work if the message is sent as a multi-part (as
>is the default for most mail programs these days.
>
>> Since my lists don't seem to be influenced by changes I make to
>> variables in the group.config file, I suspect that I am missing
>> something completely about how to configure individual lists.
>
>If the examples above don't work for you, then your list aliases probably
>don't use resend. In that case, although Majordomo handles subscribe and
>unsubscribe requests, it has no part in distributing list messages,
>Without resend, your lists are just plain old UNIX :include: losts and the
>.config file doesn't come into play.
>
>Post your aliases for the list so we can take a look.
>
>--
>Chip Old (Francis E. Old) E-Mail: fold@bcpl.net
>Manager, BCPL Network Services Phone: 410-887-6180
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