Lyris User's Guide
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How to use Lyris List Manager Extensions
Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Email Commands
· Web Interface for Users
· Server Administrator
· Site Administrator
· List Administrator
· Other Topics
· Add-On Packages
· Installing and Upgrading
· Appendix
· Frequently Asked Questions
· · DocBots
· · Running Lyris List Manager
· · Email
· · Lyris List Manager Administration
· · Web Browsers
· · Usenet Newsgroups
· · International
· · Other FAQ issues
· · Mailing List Features
· · · How can I make a private list?
· · · How can I make a moderated list?
· · · How can Members "expire" after a certain time period?
· · · How do I approve Moderated Messages in bulk?
· · · One Way Mailing Lists
· · · How do I make a Mailing List that sends to several Mailing lists?
· · · How do I add a CancelBot to my mailing list?
· · · What Happens to Bad Mail Addresses?
· · · What about MIME Digests?
· · · How to use Lyris List Manager Extensions
· · · How Lyris List Manager Decides Who to Unsubscribe
· · Perl/LCP Toolkit
· · Unix Administration

How to use Lyris List Manager Extensions

Here are directions on how to set up a Perl script to be run as a Lyris List Manager extension. Many Perl scripts are freely available at http://www.lyris.com/down/scripts.html for a wide variety of uses.

These directions are for the "delhtml" extension, but can be used for any extension you want to use.

1) Copy the delhtml.pl file to your perl library directory. On NT, this is \perl5\lib. On Unix, be sure the "chmod 755 delhtml.pl" so that it is executable.

2) If you are running on NT, make a batch file named "delhtml.bat" in your \perl5\lib directory, with these contents:

    c:\perl5\bin\perl c:\perl5\lib\delhtml.pl %1 %2 %3

3) Using the web interface, go to your list settings, go to the bottom where the "run a program before" field is. If you are on Unix, give the complete path to delhtml.pl. If you are on NT, give the complete path to delhtml.bat (ie: c:\perl5\lib\delhtml.bat)

Repeat step #3 for any other lists you want to have use this extension script.

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