Get Documents
Members of a mailing list can obtain the documents from a mailing with the Get command. They syntax for the get command
get listname document-name-or-range
Currently, two kinds of documents are available: "hello" and "goodbye". These are the documents that are mailed when someone joins the mailing list, and when someone leaves the
mailing list. For example:
get jazztalk hello
get rock-discussion hello
The hello and goodbye documents can also be obtained by sending email to the Command-Listname address "hello-listname@…" and
"goodbye-listname@…"
If you know the document ID or range of IDs of archived messages that you want to retrieve, you can also use the "get" command to retrieve specific message bodies.
For instance, if you subscribe to a mailing list with "index" mode, you receive a nightly summary of the messages from that day, with a get command pre-written to retrieve the message bodies.
The format of the get command for retrieving an archived message (or a set of messages) is:
get listname message-id [message-id] …
or you can specify a range with:
get listname (first-message-id)-(last-message-id)
For example:
get jazztalk 100 105 106 109
get jazztalk 100-109
Similarly, you can retrieve all of the messages for a certain date by following the listname with a date or range of dates. The format of the date is yyyymmdd.
Usage:
get listname date[-ending_date]
Thus, if you are requesting messages for only a single date, you can follow this example:
On the other hand, if you want to retrieve all the messages for February 2000, you would issue the following command:
get jazztalk 20000201-20000229
Get Documents Example
This is a sample nightly index document from the NeoForum mailing list. Notice that the "get" command is pre-written for the user in the message.
CDLIST Index for Saturday, March 08, 1997.
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Subject: Re: results
From: Jason Smith <jsmith@somewhere.com>
ID: 133
Subject: Re: Aborting a cd
From: Bob Jones <neo@elsewhere.com>
ID: 136
Subject: CD-Roms
From: mainp@domain.co.uk (Matt Smith)
ID: 139
Subject: Re[2]: Client/Server?
From: pben@mydomain.com
ID: 141
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To receive the full text of these messages, send the following command to lyris@lyris.yourcompany.com
get cdlist 133-141
Or, you can retrieve specific messages with a command such as:
get cdlist 133 136
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