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Using Majordomo for Argonne BG/L mailing lists
To use Majordomo send an email addressed to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov.
The body of your email message should contain the Majordomo commands.
Make sure that the Majordomo commands are in the body of the email message
and not the Subject: field, since
Majordomo ignores anything in the Subject: field.
You may put multiple Majordomo commands in the same email message.
Put each command on a line by itself.
- Finding out which lists are on this system
- Subscribing to a List
- Unsubscribing from a List
- Sending Email to a List
- Finding Out Who Is on a List
- Getting More Information
- Majordomo User Command Summary
1. Finding out which lists are on this system
To get a list of Argonne BG/L's publicly-available email list names,
send email to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains this line, in the body of the message:
lists
To get more information about a particular list, use the info command,
supplying the name of the list. For example, if the name of the list
about which you wish information is "demo-list", you would put the line
info demo-list
in the body of the email message (however, many Argonne BG/L email lists have no
"information files" associated with them).
2. Subscribing to a List
You can subscribe to a Majodomo mailing list by sending email to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains this line, in the body of the message:
subscribe list_name
where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list that you wish to join.
3. Unsubscribing from a List
You can unsubscribe from a Majodomo mailing list by sending email to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains this line:
unsubscribe list_name
where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list from
which you wish to stop receiving email.
4. Sending Email to a List
You can send email to all the members of the mailing list
by addressing your email to the list:
list_name@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list. Note that some
lists have restrictions on who can send email to them.
5. Finding Out Who Is on a List
You can get a list of subscribers to a Majodomo mailing list by sending email to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains this line, in the body of the message:
who list_name
where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list for which you
want the list of subscribers. Note that some lists have restrictions on who
can list their subscribers.
6. More Information
For more details on other Majordomo commands, send email to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains this line, in the body of the message:
help
If you want to privately contact the owner of the mailing list, rather than the
entire mailing list, send email addressed to
owner-list_name@bgl.mcs.anl.gov (replacing list_name with the
actual name of the mailing list).
Majordomo User Command Summary
Here is a list of majordomo commands for mailing list subscribers. To use
Majordomo,
send a mail message addressed to
majordomo@bgl.mcs.anl.gov
that contains one or more of the
following commands in the body of the email.
Make sure to replace list_name with the actual
name of the Majordomo mailing list, and replace your_email_address with
your own email address.
Options contained in [...] are optional.
- help
- To receive a comprehensive list and description of Majordomo user commands.
- subscribe list_name your_email_address
- Subscribe yourself to list_name.
- unsubscribe list_name your_email_address
- Unsubscribe yourself from list_name.
- which [your_email_address]
- Find out which mailing lists you (or your_email_address)
are subscribed to.
- who list_name
- Get a list of all the people who subscribe to list_name.
- info list_name
- Retrieve general introductory information for list_name.
- lists
- Show the list served by this Majordomo server.
- help
- Retrieve help about using Majordomo.
- help
- Stop processing majordomo commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).
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