To start and log on to ListManager

Windows

Unix

1. Click Start, then Programs.

2. Select Lyris ListManager.

3. Select Run ListManager Now.

4. From the Start menu, select Run ListManager Web Server Now.

5. From the Start menu, select ListManager Web Interface. Or, open a web browser and go to the ListManager URL directly. For example, if the hostname is "lists.example.com", point your web browser to http://lists.example.com.

6. A screen will prompt you for your admin name and password. Enter the name admin and password you selected when installing ListManager.

1. Log on as root.

2. Change to the ListManager directory. E.g: /usr/local/lm/bin.

3. Run ./S96lm start to start ListManager.

4. Run ./S96httpd-lm start to start the ListManager Web Server.

5. Open a web browser, and go to the ListManager URL. For example, if the hostname is "lists.example.com", point your web browser to http://lists.example.com.

6. A screen will prompt you for your admin name and password. Enter the name admin and password you selected when installing ListManager.

If you are running ListManager for the first time

After you log on for the first time, you must create a list. You will be automatically taken to the Your First List Page when you log into ListManager the first time. You will not be able to proceed if you do not create and save this initial list.

1. Select the Purpose of List. Email Marketing and Announcements are one-way lists from the administrator to the list members; Moderated and Unmoderated Discussion lists are two-way conversations among list members.

2. Enter Test as the List Name and List Description. (Note: You will not be able to change the list name later! If you believe you'll want to use this test list in production later, please use a different name).

3. Edit the Admin Name, Admin Email Address and Admin Password.

Note: Each administrator should have a unique login. Shared logins may cause web interface conflicts.

4. Click Save to save your list. You will be taken to the homepage for your new list.

Entering Your Serial Number (Optional)

If you entered your serial number while installing ListManager, you may skip this step. Without a serial number, ListManager may be disabled or limited to having 200 members.

1. In the left Navigation bar, click Utilities, point to Administration, then point to Server, then point to Server Settings, and then click Machine Settings.

2. Type your serial number in the Serial Number box.

3. Click Save.

4. In the left Navigation bar under Utilities, click Administration, then point to Server, then point to Operational Statistics, and then click License Capabilities.

5. Click Refresh this page, and then verify your license capabilities.

Starting ListManager from the command line

Windows

Unix

1. Change to the directory where you installed ListManager.

2. Run:

lm start

or to save the output to a file, run:

lm start 1>lm.log 2>lm2.log

This command redirects the standard output and the error log to files in your ListManager directory, which may be examined later.

1. Change to the directory where you installed ListManager.

2. Run:

./lm start

or to save the output to a file, run:

./lm start 1>lm.log 2>lm2.log

This command redirects the standard output and the error log to files in your ListManager directory, which may be examined later.

NOTE If you type "lm" with no command line parameters, the available options display and then ListManager exists without running.

Modifiers to the "start" command

The "start" command can be modified with a number of options. The options can be anywhere on the command line, in any order. The options are:

cfgfile

Run ListManager and specify which configuration file to use. By default, ListManager uses lmcfg.txt to connect to the database.

You can use an alternate configuration file using the cfgfile command-line option. The file to load is specified after the "cfgfile" command-line argument. For example:

lm.exe start cfgfile lmcfg_dev.txt

The cfgfile argument must be a relative path, and can appear anywhere in the command line.

mailtest

Run ListManager, do not actually deliver any email. It will run completely as normal, but during the SMTP transaction will send a RESET and QUIT command right before it is supposed to send the DATA command. This option can be useful to test the load-capacity and stability of a ListManager installation.

morestats

Running ListManager in morestats mode gives additional information in the Server Statistics page.

nocheck

Run ListManager, but do not check for any TCP/IP conflicts. When it starts up, it first checks to see if any other programs are using the TCP/IP addresses and ports that ListManager will need to use. ListManager does this by trying to connect to port 25 (SMTP mail) and port 2021 (Tclport) on all TCP/IP addresses of the machine, or just the TCP/IP addresses ListManager has been configured to use, if the "Multiple TCP/IP Addresses" setting has been used. If one of the ports it needs is being used, ListManager will display an error message and not load. If you prefer, you can bypass this test with the nocheck option, and it will start a few seconds faster.

noincoming

Run ListManager but do not run the incoming mail processing service. Incoming mail will not be processed.

noindexer

Run ListManager, but do not run the full text indexing service. Messages waiting to be full text indexed will not be indexed.

nomail

Run ListManager but do not send any mail:

lm start nomail

nonntpserver

Run ListManager, but do not run the nntp server which allows Newsgroup access to the mailing lists.

noscheduler

Run ListManager, but do not run the scheduled task manager. Tasks such as digests will not be run.

noscreen

Run ListManager with no screen output

nosmtpserver

Run ListManager, but do not run the SMTP server which receives mail. No incoming mail will be accepted.

notclport

Run ListManager with no TCLPORT service (which runs on port 2021, by default). The web interface will not be able to communicate with the server.

tclporttrace

Run ListManager so it keeps track of the current state of every tclport thread.

threadtrack

When you start ListManager in the foreground with the "threadtrack" option on the command line, it will keep track of the current state of every SMTP mail thread. You can view the instant status of all mail sending threads from the server statistics page, where this additional information is appended. This can be informative and useful in determining what the ListManager SMTP delivery engine is doing.