Administrator Email Commands

ListManager has a number of commands specific to administrators to allow adding or unsubscribing members, moderating messages, and retrieving list information.

The administrator must write to the listmanager@ server address using a list, site or server administrator email address, and use the login command to provide the admin password.

Note that if you are using a script to subscribe members using admin email commands, you may need to put in a loop exception for the admin email address. You may also want to use the end quiet command so notification about the command is not returned.

All administrator email commands require the admin password to be provided in a login command in the first line to authenticate the sender as an admin with the rights to use the administrator commands.

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ListManager will use the email address the message is sent from to identify the sender as a Server, Site or List Administrator, and then check the password provided in the login command. If the password you specified with the login command is correct, it will proceed to process the commands in the message. If it is not, processing of your message will stop.

When ListManager detects a login command, it replaces the password with an XXX in the archived copy it keeps, and in the acknowledgement message that is sent back to you. The reason for this is so that other people looking at your email message, either in your mailbox, or in the incoming mail web page, will not be able to determine your password.

However, including a password in an email message is inherently insecure. If you are concerned about password security, do not use email commands that require a login command.

End [quiet]

Like non-administrative members, administrators may also use the end command to indicate that ListManager should stop processing any additional text in the message.

end quiet

The quiet modifier is optional.

When the command interpreter encounters the end command, it stops processing the message immediately. Thus, if you use end, you must be certain to have all of your commands above it. If you use the quiet modifier, you will not receive notification from ListManager regarding that command message.