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	added to the list. This cuts down on subscription pranks that get played on		added to the list. This cuts down on subscription pranks that get played on
	people occasionally.		people occasionally.
	By default a list is set up a open+confirm.
			By default a list is set up a open+confirm.

	=====Who can post to my list?=====		=====Who can post to my list?=====

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	auto, open, and closed.		auto, open, and closed.

	*Auto means anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is usually a bad idea.		*'''Auto''' means anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is usually a bad idea.
	*Open means anyone can subscribe themselves to the list. If they try to subscribe someone else it must be approved.		*'''Open''' means anyone can subscribe themselves to the list. If they try to subscribe someone else it must be approved.
	*Closed means all subscriptions must be approved.		*'''Closed''' means all subscriptions must be approved.

	In addition you can add +confirm to the end of the option to require that the		In addition you can add +confirm to the end of the option to require that the

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	auto, open, and closed.		auto, open, and closed.

	Auto means anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is usually a		*Auto means anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is usually a bad idea.
	bad idea.		*Open means anyone can subscribe themselves to the list. If they try to subscribe someone else it must be approved.
	Open means anyone can subscribe themselves to the list. If they try to		*Closed means all subscriptions must be approved.
	subscribe someone else it must be approved.
	Closed means all subscriptions must be approved.

	In addition you can add +confirm to the end of the option to require that the		In addition you can add +confirm to the end of the option to require that the
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	Majordomo will strip the Approved header from the message.		Majordomo will strip the Approved header from the message.




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===How do I restrict posts, moderate, or set up a digest with Majordomo?===
Article:93
Created:2001-02-15 19:37:13
Categories:
E-mail
Mailing Lists
Majordomo

====Question or Symptom====
This is a discussion of some of the common configurations of Majordomo
mailing lists.

====Resolution====
Please be sure you've read and understood knowledge base article 92. We'll assume
you know how to send mail to majordomo, how to get your configuration file,
and what email aliases have been set up for you mailing list.

Who can subscribe to my mailing list?
This is set by the subscribe variable. The options are:
auto, open, and closed.

Auto means anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is usually a
bad idea.
Open means anyone can subscribe themselves to the list. If they try to
subscribe someone else it must be approved.
Closed means all subscriptions must be approved.

In addition you can add +confirm to the end of the option to require that the
person being subscribed must send a confirmation message before they will be
added to the list. This cuts down on subscription pranks that get played on
people occasionally.
By default a list is set up a open+confirm.

=====Who can post to my list?=====
By default, anyone can post to your list. If you want to limit the subscribers
to only be people on your mailing list you can set the restrict-post variable
like this:

restrict-post = my-list-name

Majordomo keeps a file with the same name as your list containing all
subscribers. In the restrict-post option you're telling Majordomo to use this
filename to check whose allowed to post.

You may have a list that is an announcement list that you only want a limited
number of people to have posting access to. This can be set up by setting
restrict-post to a filename containing only those names. Contact the SWCP
staff for help in getting that file located in the correct place.

=====Setting up a digest=====
This is something you need to have the SWCP NOC staff do for you. It requires
setting up a second majordomo list named my-list-name-digest. It can be
subscribed and managed in the same way your other list is. You can have the
digest made automatically when it reaches a certain size, or after a certain
length of time has passed or you can manually make digests whenever you feel
it's time.

Several variables you'll want to be aware of are digest_maxlines,
and digest_maxdays.

The way digest_maxdays works is whenever a message comes in for the digest
the time since the last digest was made is checked and if it's greater than
digest_maxdays a digest will be made. If you want to insure a digest is made
once a week you should talk to use about setting up a cron job to issue a
manual mkdigest command every seven days. To make a digest manually you'd
issue the command

mkdigest digest-list-password

=====Moderating List=====

You may want to set up a list where posts must be approved before they are
posted to the mailing list. This can be a lot of work for the moderator, but
is sometimes appropriate. The option to do this is:
moderate = yes

What will happen when this is set, is each message will be sent to the list
owner. The list owner must forward or redirect the message to the mailing
adding the following line as the first line of the
body of the message:

Approved: list-password

Majordomo will strip the Approved header from the message.

====Related KB articles====
[[KB 13]] Restricting posts to a majordomo mailing list

[[KB 92]] How do I run a Majordomo list?