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| This is one of a set of three documents for the various people involved in running and using a mailing list. For the members of mailing lists (the subscribers), we have the [[../Mailman 2.1 Members Manual|Mailman 2.1 Members Manual]] which covers things like subscribing and unsubscribing. For the people who install and set up Mailman, we will eventually have the [[../Mailman 2.1 Site Administrators Manual|Mailman 2.1 Site Administrators Manual]], which has not yet been written. This document covers the people who run mailing lists: the list administrators (who can change all the list options, as well as authorize postings that have been held for moderation), and the list moderators (who cannot modify list settings). This document does not need to be read in order, so if you just want an answer to a specific question, jump to the appropriate place and references to other sections will be provided when necessary or potentially helpful. == Acknowledgements == The bulk of this document has been written by Terri Oda. Terri used to get a lot of spam, so she did research into neat evolutionary anti-spam solutions. And then she thought it would be nice if her grandfather could use the web without worrying about bad stuff getting into his computer, so she started doing web security. All of this is a roundabout way of saying that she actually doesn't consider herself a document writer, but she was tired of Mailman not having documentation so she figured it was time to do something about it. The original site admin docs were written by Barry Warsaw. Thanks also go to the rest of the Mailman team who provided the inline help upon which much of this documentation is based. This document is now stored in the Mailman wiki http://wiki.list.org, and may be edited and added to by members of the Mailman community. Please see the wiki changelogs for more information. |
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| == The email interface == = The options = |
In many cases, this is the only interface a list administrator will use, and may be the only interface the list administrator has permissions to use. = Moderation = = Configuration = |
This document describes the list administrator's interface for GNU Mailman 2.1. It contains information a list owner would need to configure their list, either through the web interface or through email. It also covers the moderator's interface for approving held messages and subscription notices, and the web interface for creating new mailing lists. In general, it does not cover the command line interface to Mailman, installing Mailman, or interacting with Mailman from the point of view of the user. That information is covered in other manuals.
I (Terri) am currently in the process of importing the 2.1 documentation from latex. It's fairly likely that there will be syntax issues and missing pieces. Please bear with me, and feel free to fix markup if you see a flaw.
Older versions of this document can be found at the following locations:
Mailman list administration manual in HTML format Mailman list administration manual in PDF format
Or the information is also available on list.org:
http://list.org/mailman-admin/ http://list.org/mailman-admin.pdf
Contents
Introduction
This is one of a set of three documents for the various people involved in running and using a mailing list. For the members of mailing lists (the subscribers), we have the Mailman 2.1 Members Manual which covers things like subscribing and unsubscribing. For the people who install and set up Mailman, we will eventually have the Mailman 2.1 Site Administrators Manual, which has not yet been written.
This document covers the people who run mailing lists: the list administrators (who can change all the list options, as well as authorize postings that have been held for moderation), and the list moderators (who cannot modify list settings).
This document does not need to be read in order, so if you just want an answer to a specific question, jump to the appropriate place and references to other sections will be provided when necessary or potentially helpful.
Acknowledgements
The bulk of this document has been written by Terri Oda. Terri used to get a lot of spam, so she did research into neat evolutionary anti-spam solutions. And then she thought it would be nice if her grandfather could use the web without worrying about bad stuff getting into his computer, so she started doing web security. All of this is a roundabout way of saying that she actually doesn't consider herself a document writer, but she was tired of Mailman not having documentation so she figured it was time to do something about it.
The original site admin docs were written by Barry Warsaw. Thanks also go to the rest of the Mailman team who provided the inline help upon which much of this documentation is based.
This document is now stored in the Mailman wiki http://wiki.list.org, and may be edited and added to by members of the Mailman community. Please see the wiki changelogs for more information.
Mailman's interfaces
Mailman has 3 interfaces:
- The web interface -- used by most people, this is the main interface most users will see
- The email interface -- used as an alternative to the web interface
- The command line interface -- used mostly by site admins, this is very powerful but perhaps not so user-friendly
The web interface
The most commonly used interface of Mailman is the web interface. Almost all the options can be set from this interface, and it also provides inline help and descriptions of each option. More importantly, the day-to-day tasks of running a mailing list are handed through this interface.
Assuming a fairly standard configuration, the configuration interface has a URL like this:
http://WEBSERVER/mailman/admin/LISTNAME
And the moderation interface has a very similar URL as follows:
http://WEBSERVER/mailman/admindb/LISTNAME
The web domain (WEBSERVER) can't be set from the web, since it's a bit too easy to render your web interface unusable by making a typo. As such, this setting is usually changed from the command line. The fix_url script is provided for this purpose. It is used in conjuction with withlist as follows:
bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname [options]
In many cases, this is the only interface a list administrator will use, and may be the only interface the list administrator has permissions to use.
Moderation
Configuration
General Options
General List Personality
Passwords
Language options
Membership Management...
Non-digest options
Digest options
Privacy options...
Bounce processing
Archiving Options
Mail<->News gateways
Auto-responder
Content filtering