The ListManager Address

Email Address: Lyris@

Purpose: To send a command, such as subscribe or unsubscribe to ListManager, you can issue the commands in an email message to the lyris@ address on your server. ListManager will understand commands entered on the subject line and in the body of the message. Multiple commands can be issued each on a separate line.

ListManager will also accept mail for most of the common list manager addresses.

Example address: lyris@clio.lyris.net

Example command "subscribe jazz-discussion"

To determine the ListManager address for your Site, take the host name you created for that Site, and prepend "lyris@" to it. For example, if your Site's host name is minerva.acme.com, your Server address is lyris@minerva.acme.com.

With ListManager, you have the option of several different kinds of command syntaxes. Wherever possible, it was made to be compatible with the command syntaxes of other list processor programs, so that users can use the command they are familiar with, and are not required to learn something new.

ListManager will accept mail at the following addresses and understand the mail as list manager commands:

lyris@hostname
list@hostname
lists@hostname
listserver@hostname
listname-request@hostname

The last format, listname-request@hostname deserves special attention.

In addition, you can define additional lyris@ addresses to rewrite an address to be lyris@. For instance, you can specify that "mailing-lists@" be rewritten as "lyris@", and this would allow people to send ListManager commands to "mailing-lists@your.hostname.com".

Prioritizing Your Message

You can optionally specify a priority for your Lyris@ mail by using the Lyris-#@ address, where # is a digit from 1 to 9. The lower the number you use, the higher the priority assigned to the message. For example, if you wanted to send a message with moderately high priority, you would send it to:

lyris-2@hostname

This is useful when you know the email you are sending either needs to be handled immediately (higher priority), or it can run in the background (lower priority).