ARCHIVED: Using Majordomo, how do I see or change the configuration of my mailing list?

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UITS has retired the Majordomo list server at Indiana University Bloomington. If you were the primary owner of an IUB Majordomo list, you can no longer use it to send mail. If you'd like to create a new mailing list, anyone with an IU Network ID username and passphrase can request a LISTSERV list. For instructions, see ARCHIVED: At IU, how do I request a new LISTSERV list? Also, for a collection of documents with general LISTSERV information, and information about owning and subscribing to LISTSERV lists at IU, see the Knowledge Base menu ARCHIVED: LISTSERV, distribution lists, and mass mailing.

Note: You should never send commands to the address of the Majordomo mailing list (e.g., to listname@host.domain, where listname is the name of the list, and host.domain is the name of the computer where the list resides); only messages intended for members of the list should be sent to the list's address. Rather, send commands to the administrative address of your Majordomo list (e.g., to majordomo@host.domain). Additionally, send all commands in the body of the message; commands in the "Subject:" line of messages are ignored.

To see or change the configuration of your Majordomo mailing list, send a message to the administrative address with the following command in it:

  config your_list password

Replace your_list with the name of your list, and replace password with the list's password.

Majordomo will then send the list's configuration file to you (for more information, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: What is a Majordomo config file?). If you wish to make any changes, edit the configuration file and send the entire file back to Majordomo. Add the newconfig command to the top of the message, immediately before the first line of the configuration file:

  newconfig your_list password

Again, replace your_list with the list's name, and replace password with the list's password.

Be careful that none of the comments in the configuration file wrap to the next line, or Majordomo will try to interpret these fragments as commands, resulting in errors and rejection of the new configuration file. If comment lines do wrap, you can either delete the wrapped words, or add # (the pound sign), which indicates a comment, to the beginning of the line containing the wrapped words.

Note: Remove all lines that begin with ">>>>". Sometimes, Majordomo will append one of these lines at the bottom of the file if the original config request ended with a blank line.

Related documents

Use the Nano editor from the Unix shell Turn off word wrap in Nano

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Last modified on 2018-01-18 09:56:38.