Re: mailing lists- email subscribe and unsubscribe

Jim,

This is pretty easy to do in Post.Office considering it is not a standard
feature.  Here are the steps:

1)  Make an account for each list

2) Then set up the alternate addresses to:
 
> list1-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-off@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

3) Set the accounts to use program delivery and point each to a script to do
the work.  
The script would parse the To: line of the email and send and appropriate
message to to appropriate list. Perl would probably be the best language for
this.

Tenon Support can make this for you if you don't want to.  Let our info
department ( info@xxxxxxxxx) know if you want this done.

--Eric


on 2/20/03 12:17 AM, Jim Sheffer at jimsheffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> thought I'd separate this into another topic :)
> 
> Right now we use the following scheme for our talk lists:
> 
> list1-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-off@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> list1-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> these addresses go through our main mail server(blueworld.com) and
> forward onto the list server(lists.blueworld.com) The list server is
> going to be moved to Post.Office first- we have 2 licences, and will
> set up the regular mail server later)
> 
> I want to keep the same email address as we already use, listed above,
> but after reading the docs on email commands, It looks like postoffice
> will not recognize this.  Is there a way around this (In the footers of
> each of our lists we have a list1-off@xxxxxxxxxxxxx address that all
> they need to do is click on and hit send.)  I don't want to have to
> explain to them how to add commands in the body of the email for basic
> things like subscribe and unsubscribe.
> 
> If it cant be done, then I'll stop racking my brains and figure out
> another convention for letting people easily subscribe/unsubscribe
> (like tenon does with this list footer)- I just want to be sure :)
> 
> 
> Thanks again for all your help- this is a long night, and i appreciate
> everyone here!
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
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