The Listmanager@ Server Address

All email commands may be sent in the body of messages sent to the server email command address listmanager@. For example, to subscribe to a list, a member may send a message to the listmanager@ address and include the subscribe listname command in the body. For example, to subscribe to the jazz-talk list on a server with the host name example.com, the subscriber would send the following to listmanager@example.com:

subscribe jazz-discussion

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. For example, to subscribe to two mailing lists and leave another in one email message:

subscribe jazz-discuss
subscribe rock-discuss
unsubscribe opera-discuss

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

Listmanager@ Alternatives

The following are alternative addresses for listmanager@:

listmanager@
list@
lists@
listserver@
listname-request@

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

You may also rebrand ListManager so that the rebrand name may be used as a listmanager@ alternative.

The Listname-Request Address

Email Address: listname-request@

Purpose: An alternative to listmanager@, this email address will accept all ListManager commands. By adding the listname in the address, it does not need to be specified in the command (but it will work fine if it is).

Example address: jazztalk-request@example.com

Example command: "subscribe"

When commands are sent to this address, all the same commands work, but the listname is no longer needed in the command. For instance, one command to subscribe to a mailing list is:

subscribe listname

That command syntax will work for any of the ListManager addresses. However, if the command is sent to listname-request, such as jazz-request@example.com, this command is enough, since the list name is clear from the mailing address:

subscribe

Prioritizing Your Message

You can optionally specify a priority for your Listmanager@ 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@example.com

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).