Subscribing with the Lyris@ Command

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 "ListManager" address in this documentation.

When sent to the ListManager 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, ListManager 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 in double quotes 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, ListManager 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>

ListManager will extract the name James Smith and apply it as part of this member's subscription settings.

The quiet modifier

If you add the word "quiet" to the subscribe command, ListManager will not send a confirming message back, unless the subscription fails for some reason. For instance, for a list called "jazztalk", you could join it with this command:

subscribe jazztalk quiet