NAME

ml, mlmgr, mlowner −  unmoderated mailing lists

SYNOPSIS

­upas/mlmgr -c ­listname

­upas/mlmgr -ar ­listname ­address

­upas/ml [ ­-r ­replyto-address ] ­addressfile ­listname

­upas/mlowner ­addressfile ­listname

DESCRIPTION

­Mlmgr creates and updates unmoderated mailing lists.  The ­-c option creates mail directories for both ­listname and listname-owner, each containing a ­pipeto file.  Messages mailed to ­listname are sent to all members of the mailing list.  Any ­Reply-to: and ­Precedence: fields are removed from the messages and new ones are added directing replies to ­listname and specifying bulk precedence.  The envelope address for error replies is set to /dev/null. 

The mailing list membership is the file /mail/box/listname/address-list.  This file is an add/remove log.  Each line represents a single address.  Lines beginning with a hash (#) are comments.  Lines beginning with an exclamation point (!) are removals.  All other lines are additions. 

Addition and removal entries can be appended using the ­-a and ­-r options to mlmgr. However, they are normally appended as a consequence or user requests.

To be added or removed from the list, a user may send a message to listname-owner. containing a key word in the header or body.  The key words are:

subscribe - add my ­From: address to the list

remove - remove my ­From: address from the list

unsubscribe - remove my ­From: address from the list

Addition and removal events cause notification messages to be sent to the added/removed address.   In the case of addition, the message describes how to be removed. 

­Ml and ­mlowner are the programs that receive messages for ­listname and listname-owner respectively.  Appropriate calls to them are inserted in the ­pipeto files created by mlmgr.

Ml’s ­-r option sets the ­Reply-to: field in the mail sent out by ­ml. 

FILES

­/mail/box/<listname> list’s mailbox directory

­/mail/box/<listname>-owner owner’s mailbox directory

­/mail/box/<listname>/address-list
log of mailing list deletions and additions

SOURCE

­/sys/src/cmd/upas/ml

SEE ALSO

aliasmail(8), faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), marshal(1), nedmail(1), qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), smtp(8), upasfs(4)
 

Plan 9  —  May 19, 2005