Announcement List Member Types

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 of member type:

Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one email.

MIME Digest: Receive all of the daily messages in one email 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 email address. You can view messages with the web interface.

Changing your member type

To change your member type, send an email to

lyris@yourserver      

With the message body

set listname option

For example:

lyris@example.net      

With the message

set soccer digest

Retrieving your member type

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@example.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.