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Member Types for Announcement Lists
Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Email Commands
· · E-mail Commands for Discussion List Members
· · E-mail Commands for Announcement List Members
· · · Subscribing to an Announcement List
· · · Unsubscribing from an Announcement List
· · · Member Types for Announcement Lists
· · How to send mail to your Lyris List Manager
· · Sending Email Commands to Lyris List Manager
· · Subscribing
· · Unsubscribe
· · Change Membership Settings
· · Determine Membership Settings
· · Mailing List Information
· · Search
· · Help Document
· · Get Documents
· · End
· · Administrator Commands
· Web Interface for Users
· Server Administrator
· Site Administrator
· List Administrator
· Other Topics
· Add-On Packages
· Installing and Upgrading
· Appendix
· Frequently Asked Questions

Member Types for Announcement Lists

This determines how you will interact with the list. The member types are defined as follows:

Mail: Receive messages to your email address as they are contributed to the list. This is the default setting and typically the preferred member type.

Alternatively, you may wish to be member type:

Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one e-mail.

MIME Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one e-mail in MIME format. With MIME, each message is received as an attachment to the email.

The last two options are usually less desirable for members of announcement lists, since you don't actually receive the messages; instead, you need to retrieve them yourself.

Index: Receive a daily index of the subject lines of the messages of the day. You can then request specific contributions or view them with the web interface.

Nomail: Don't receive list contributions to your e-mail address. You can view messages with the web interface.

To change your member type, send an email to

    lyris@yourserver

With the message body

    set listname option

For example:

    lyris@clio.lyris.net

With the message

    set soccer digest

If you don't know what your member type is, you can find out by sending an email to

    lyris@yourserver

With the message body

    query listname

For example:

    lyris@clio.lyris.net

With the message

    query soccer

If you send this query message, you will be sent back an email with all of your member settings, including member type.

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  • E-mail Commands for Announcement List Members
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