Re: mailing lists- email subscribe and unsubscribe

[eyang@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Yang)]

I have written a script for parsing the email and automate the

subscription for other mailing list.  It will require the following:

1.  cd /usr/local/post.office/local

2. chmod u+s Program-Delivery

3.  Remove NO-PROGRAM-DELIVERIES from /usr/local/post.office/trusted

4. place your subscribe/unsubscribe script in /usr/local/post.office/trusted

5. Go into Admin Screen, and setup list1-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to allow "Program Delivery" and run subscribe script.

    Do the same respectively for other addresses.

A subscribe script would look like this:

#!/bin/sh

while read line

do

  if [ ! $name ]; then

    name="`echo $line | grep From: | awk '{ print $2 }'`"

  fi

  if [ $name ]; then

    /usr/local/post.office/cmdutils/subscribe nameofthemailinglist $name

  fi

do

Hope this helps.  You can read more about program delivery in Chapter 6 of the

HELP in Post.Office HTML admin server.

regards,

Eric

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:17 AM, Jim Sheffer 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
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Jim
> Sheffer             Blue World Communications
> Systems Administrator   phone
> 425.646.0288 ext. 213
> -----------------------------------------
> ---------
> Tenon Intersystems' Post.Office Mailing
> List
> To unsubscribe: send
> mailto:post_office-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> with the body only containing:
> unsubscribe
> Find the searchable mailing list archives
> at:
> http://postoffice.computeroil.com/
>
>

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