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Last updated 11/08/06

Basic List Server Commands

The List server will accept the following commands from the body of an email message:

  • Subscribe listname your_name
  • Unsubscribe listname your_name
  • Help
  • Help listname
  • List
  • List listname
  • Set mode digest listname
  • Set mode standard listname

When sending email to the List server to perform any of these commands, you must always address the email to "listserv@yourDomain".

The following examples assume there is a list called "beer":

To subscribe to the "beer" list located on yourDomain.com, you send mail to the listserver and enter the Subscribe command in the body of the message, as follows:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:  Subscribe beer Fred Farkle

To unsubscribe from the list:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:  Unsubscribe beer Fred Farkle

To get general help from the List server:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject: help

To get help for a specific list:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:
  help beer

To get a list of users subscribed to a specific list:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:  list beer

To receive a digest of messages sent to the list (the user must already be a subscriber to the list):

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:  set mode digest beer

To cancel digest mode and receive messages as they are sent to the list (the user must already be a subscriber to the list):

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject:
set mode standard beer

Also, the list owner can subscribe another user by forwarding a message from that user to the listserver. 

The list owner can also unsubscribe a user by sending a message to the List server with a message in the form: 
unsubcribe listname user@domain.com.

For example:

TO: listserv@yourDomain.com
Subject: unsubscribe beer ethel@acme.com

Note: You must be able to forward a message unmodified (i.e. with the headers unchanged) in order for this to work; otherwise you will end up adding or removing yourself from the list.

 

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