If your email address is in a Mailman mailing list, you can send an
email message to the list with help in the subject or body of
the email to get an email reply showing you the commands that you can put
in email messages to the list. E.g., supposing that you are a member of
a mailing list called "browncoats" on the server example.com. To see a list
of the available commands supported by the Mailman mailing list handling
email to that mailing list, you would send an email with help
in the subject or body of the message to
browncoats-request@example.com. I.e., you would put the name
of the mailing list, in this case "browncoats" followed by a dash and the
word "request" as the email address to which you would be sending the
command. If you put help in the body of the message, you don't
need to specify a subject, but put help as the first line of
the message with no other text on the line. The response from Mailman should
be one similar to the following response:
The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.
- Results:
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You can access your personal options via the following url:
https://lists.example.com/mailman/options/browncoats/john.s.smith%40example.com
help
Help for browncoats mailing list:
This is email command help for version 2.1.14 of the "Mailman"
list manager. The following describes commands you can send to get
information about and control your subscription to Mailman lists at
this site. A command can be in the subject line or in the body of the
message.
Note that much of the following can also be accomplished via the World
Wide Web, at:
https://lists.example.com/mailman/listinfo/browncoats
In particular, you can use the Web site to have your password sent to
your delivery address.
List specific commands (subscribe, who, etc) should be sent to the
*-request address for the particular list, e.g. for the 'mailman'
list, use 'mailman-request@...'.
About the descriptions - words in "<>"s signify REQUIRED items and
words in "[]" denote OPTIONAL items. Do not include the "<>"s or
"[]"s when you use the commands.
The following commands are valid:
confirm <confirmation-string>
Confirm an action. The confirmation-string is required and should be
supplied by a mailback confirmation notice.
end
Stop processing commands. Use this if your mail program automatically
adds a signature file.
help
Print this help message.
info
Get information about this mailing list.
lists
See a list of the public mailing lists on this GNU Mailman server.
password [<oldpassword> <newpassword>] [address=<address>]
Retrieve or change your password. With no arguments, this returns
your current password. With arguments <oldpassword> and <newpassword>
you can change your password.
If you're posting from an address other than your membership address,
specify your membership address with `address=<address>' (no brackets
around the email address, and no quotes!). Note that in this case the
response is always sent to the subscribed address.
set ...
Set or view your membership options.
Use `set help' (without the quotes) to get a more detailed list of the
options you can change.
Use `set show' (without the quotes) to view your current option
settings.
subscribe [password] [digest|nodigest] [address=<address>]
Subscribe to this mailing list. Your password must be given to
unsubscribe or change your options, but if you omit the password, one
will be generated for you. You may be periodically reminded of your
password.
The next argument may be either: `nodigest' or `digest' (no quotes!).
If you wish to subscribe an address other than the address you sent
this request from, you may specify `address=<address>' (no brackets
around the email address, and no quotes!)
unsubscribe [password] [address=<address>]
Unsubscribe from the mailing list. If given, your password must match
your current password. If omitted, a confirmation email will be sent
to the unsubscribing address. If you wish to unsubscribe an address
other than the address you sent this request from, you may specify
`address=<address>' (no brackets around the email address, and no
quotes!)
who password [address=<address>]
See the non-hidden members of this mailing list. The roster is
limited to list members only, and you must supply your membership
password to retrieve it. If you're posting from an address other
than your membership address, specify your membership address with
`address=<address>' (no brackets around the email address, and no
quotes!). If you provide the list's admin or moderator password,
hidden members will be included.
Commands should be sent to browncoats-request@lists.example.com
Questions and concerns for the attention of a person should be sent to
browncoats-owner@lists.example.comIf you've forgotten your password for the mailing list, you can put
Password as the subject of the message and send it to
listname-request@server where listname is the name of
the list and server is the fully qualified domain name of the
server, e.g., browncoats-request@example.com. You should get an
email response with a message similar to the one below:
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Your password is: abcd2016If you wanted a list of the email addresses for all of the members
of the mailing list, you could put who abcd2016 in the body of
the message, presuming that "abcd2016" was your password.
If you wish to view your current option settings for the mailing list,
you can put set show in the subject line or body of the
message. The response will look similar to the one below:
The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.
- Results:
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Your current option settings:
ack off
digest off
delivery on
myposts on
hide off
duplicates off
reminders on
- Unprocessed:
If you send the command set help to the list, you will
receive a response similar to the following one:
The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.
- Results:
Ignoring non-text/plain MIME parts
set help
Show this detailed help.
set show [address=<address>]
View your current option settings. If you're posting from an address
other than your membership address, specify your membership address
with `address=<address>' (no brackets around the email address, and no
quotes!).
set authenticate <password> [address=<address>]
To set any of your options, you must include this command first, along
with your membership password. If you're posting from an address
other than your membership address, specify your membership address
with `address=<address>' (no brackets around the email address, and no
quotes!).
set ack on
set ack off
When the `ack' option is turned on, you will receive an
acknowledgement message whenever you post a message to the list.
set digest plain
set digest mime
set digest off
When the `digest' option is turned off, you will receive postings
immediately when they are posted. Use `set digest plain' if instead
you want to receive postings bundled into a plain text digest
(i.e. RFC 1153 digest). Use `set digest mime' if instead you want to
receive postings bundled together into a MIME digest.
set delivery on
set delivery off
Turn delivery on or off. This does not unsubscribe you, but instead
tells Mailman not to deliver messages to you for now. This is useful
if you're going on vacation. Be sure to use `set delivery on' when
you return from vacation!
set myposts on
set myposts off
Use `set myposts off' to not receive copies of messages you post to
the list. This has no effect if you're receiving digests.
set hide on
set hide off
Use `set hide on' to conceal your email address when people request
the membership list.
set duplicates on
set duplicates off
Use `set duplicates off' if you want Mailman to not send you messages
if your address is explicitly mentioned in the To: or Cc: fields of
the message. This can reduce the number of duplicate postings you
will receive.
set reminders on
set reminders off
Use `set reminders off' if you want to disable the monthly password
reminder for this mailing list.
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