Member

The member command allows you to act upon a pending member of a moderated mailing list.

The only options for the member command are to either approve or reject a membership application to a private mailing list.

The syntax of the member command is:

member approve member-id …
member reject member-id …

You can specify more than one Member ID on the member command line.

If you are a list administrator set to receive admin mail, and your mailing list is set to private, then you will receive email notifications of applications to join your private mailing list. The notification message will include the member command you need to send back to approve or reject the member. In addition, if there are any other pending members, these will also be listed, at the bottom of the notification message, along with commands to approve or reject them.

Example

Here is an example of a notification message an administrator receives when someone applies to join a private mailing list:

List: test-l
Name: Some Name
Email: adasf@lyris.com

A request from 'adasf@lyris.com' to join the private list 'test-l' has been received.
Their subscription request will not be activated until an administrator approves it.
---
To approve this member, send the following two line message to lyris@lyris.yourcompany.com
login (enter your password here)
member approve 122
---
To reject (delete) this member, send the following two line message to lyris@lyris.yourcompany.com
login (enter your password here)
member reject 122
----------------------------------------------------
The following members are currently pending:
 * Member 116 (yourcompany@clark.net)
 * Member 117 (logika@clark.net)
 * Member 118 (assf@lyris.com)
 * Member 120 (assfasf@lyris.com)
 * Member 121 (assfdasf@lyris.com)
 * Member 122 (aassfdasf@lyris.com)
---
To approve these members, send the following two line message to lyris@lyris.yourcompany.com
login (enter your password here)
member approve 116 117 118 120 121 122
---
To reject (delete) these members, send the following two line message to
     lyris@lyris.yourcompany.com
     login (enter your password here)
     member reject 116 117 118 120 121 122

If you approve a member, they will receive this email message (and the Hello document, if your list defined one):

Your request to join 'test-l' has been approved.

You are now a member of 'test-l'.
If you reject a member, they will receive this email message:

Your request to join 'test-l' has been rejected.

If you wish to discuss this with a mailing list administrator, you can send email to owner-test-l@lyris.yourcompany.com