How to Use ListManager Extensions

Here are directions on how to set up a Perl script to be run as a ListManager 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 Windows, 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 Windows, 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.