Subscribing with the Lyris@ address
You can subscribe to a mailing list by sending a subscribe command to the lyris@yourserver.com address. The lyris@ address is referred to as the "List manager" address in this
documentation.
When sent to the List manager address, any of the following subscribe syntaxes are acceptable:
subscribe listname
subscribe listname password
subscribe listname your name
subscribe listname your name password
subscribe
listname password your name
The password syntaxes are only applicable if the mailing list is password protected, and in such a case the password must be specified at subscription time in
order to be accepted. In the cases where the person's name is specified next to the Password, Lyris List Manager is able to extract the password from the text, and correctly understands that what
remains is the person's name.
In the above prototypes, the your name labels are place holders where the person subscribing can insert their name. The person's name does not need to be two words--all the words
at the end of the subscribe command will be understood as the person's name.
For instance, the following subscribe command is valid:
subscribe jazz-discuss Mr. James Barton Smith
If the subscriber does not specify their name on the subscribe command line, Lyris List Manager will attempt to determine the person's name from their email address. For example,
if their email message says:
From: James Smith <jsmith@acme.com>
Lyris List Manager will extract the name James Smith and apply it as part of this member's subscription settings.
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