Great Circle Associates Majordomo-Users
(September 2003)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: Welcome message.
From: Daniel Liston <dliston @ sonny . org>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:37:48 -0500
To: support @ klings . com,MajorDomo Users <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <2422.12.222.115.101.1064972236.squirrel@shop.klings.com>
References: <2321.12.222.115.101.1064623787.squirrel@shop.klings.com> <3F7A135E.8000604@sonny.org> <2422.12.222.115.101.1064972236.squirrel@shop.klings.com>
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

Is the list closed?  Is the admin/moderator sending mail in plain text?
Does the majordomo.cf file use a REAL host/domain name in the $whereami
variable?  If /bin/dnsdomainname is use or /bin/hostname, etc, it will
need to be "chomp"'d to prevent stray blank lines in the message headers.

Dan Liston

Mike Horton wrote:
> There was no time warp. I sent several messages but the administrator said
> they got caught and tripped an administriva alert.
> I have created listname.intro and turned off the welcome message and the
> new user gets this email : >>>> approve dyjhrh3 subscribe users
> testlistuser@klings.comSucceeded.
> 
>>>>> with a subject of : Majordomo results.
> 
> 
> If I turn on the welcome message the user doesn't get the above he just
> gets the welcome message and the intro message in the body of one email. I
> have tried all kinds of options and still I am not seing the expected
> results.
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
>>Did I time warp?  Or did your message take four days to get into
>>the list?  Regardless, if you create a listname.intro file, it is
>>"supposed to be" sent instead of the default welcome built int the
>>majordomo script.  If you add users directly by editing the members of
>>the $listdir/listname file, a welcome is not sent at all.
>>
>>Dan Liston
>>
>>Mike Horton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there any way to supress the welcome message that is sent to new
>>>subscribers, and only send an intro. What I have is a list of my email
>>>users that I sometimes need to communicate with and I want them to see
>>>only an intro message and not the welcome message cause I don't want
>>>them to be able to unsubscribe and such . I just want them to know
>>>that there new email is set up and they are being added to this list
>>>so we can communicate with them. I found the wording for the welcome
>>>message in the file majordomo, but I thought there might be someplace
>>>else I could suppress it without editing this file.
>>>Thanks
>>>Mike
>>>
> 
> 
> 



References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: Welcome message.
From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>
Next: Re: Welcome message.
From: "Joe R. Jah" <jjah@cloud.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Indexed By Thread Previous: Re: Welcome message.
From: Daniel Liston <dliston@sonny.org>
Next: Re: Welcome message.
From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com