Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Basic Settings

Admin email address

This field should contain the email address of the administrator of this server. ListManager uses this email address to send critical information messages to. For example, if a mail loop is detected, ListManager will automatically end the loop, and notify the email address given here of the loop that occurred.

Forwarding orders

Forwarding orders allow ListManager to receive email for a given email address, and forward that email to another email address.

For example, you might want to define an "administrator" (or "admin") email address on your server and have it forwarded to your personal email address.

You can define as many forwarding orders as you like, each one separated by a carriage return. Each forwarding order has two parts: the first part is the email address you want ListManager to match on (the address on the ListManager) and the second part (separated by a space) is the email address to forward email to.

Here is an example of two forwarding orders that forward mail from "admin" and "administrator" on a server named "server5.example.com":

admin@server5.example.com bob@example.com
administrator@server5.example.com bob@example.com

You can specify multiple people to forward to, by separating each destination email address with a comma. One use of this feature might be to make a "cross-posting" address for multiple lists. Mail sent to this address could automatically be forwarded to several mailing lists. Another use of this feature is if there are several administrators who should receive the same email.

Here is an example:

admins@example.com bob@example.com,jane@example.com

When forwarding to multiple recipients, be sure to separate each recipient address with a single comma, with no spaces between each email address; otherwise your forwarding order will not work.

Rewrite incoming "From" header

Optionally rewrite incoming From: mail addresses using these rules.

This feature is useful when your users have slightly varying email addresses. For instance, a user's email address might sometimes say "bob@example.com" and other times say "bob@mail.example.com". This feature lets you rewrite an email address so that it becomes something else.

To create an incoming "From" header rewrite rule, specify the string to search for, a space, and then the replacement string. The process is a simple search and replace in the "From" header. If the first string is found, then it is replaced with the second string.

You can specify as many rewrites as you like, each on a separate line.

Example:

@mail.example.com @example.com

In this case, the email address jane@mail.example.com will be rewritten to jane@example.com.

The incoming mail rewrites only apply mail coming into (being delivered to) ListManager. Outgoing mail addresses are not affected.

Rewrite incoming "To" header

Optionally rewrite incoming To: mail addresses using these rules.

This feature is useful for creating aliases. For instance, you may want people to be able to send mail to "listservices@…" and have it delivered to ListManager as "lyris@…".

To create an incoming "To" header rewrite rule, specify the string to search for, a space, and then the replacement string. The process is a simple search and replace in the "To" header. If the first string is found, then it is replaced with the second string.

You can specify as many rewrites as you like, each on a separate line.

Example:

listservices@ lyris@

In this case, the email address listservices@mail.example.com will be rewritten to lyris@mail.example.com.

The incoming mail To: rewrites only apply mail coming into (being delivered to) ListManager. Outgoing mail addresses are not affected.

Remove command email addresses

This option allows you to prevent ListManager from listening for command email addresses you specify.

By default, ListManager accepts email for a variety of command addresses, such as "subscribe-listname@…" "help@…" "info@…" and many others. To prevent ListManager from responding to these addresses, list them here, one per line.

See Command Email Addresses for a complete list of all ListManager command addresses. Note that if you are using a Rebrandable server, the rebrand email address is also a command email address.

Enter the command address only, not the server domain name, one per line.

Examples:

subscribe-jazztalk
help
info

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