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Setting Up Mailman

Table of Contents
Important
Administrator and Moderator
Setting Address for Reply Messages
Creating Topics
Modifing Member Information


Important Notice

When setting up mailman for use it is important to go through all of the Configuration Categories. The General Options and Privacy Options are extremely important to check.

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Administrator and Moderator

If the Administrator and Moderator do not want to recieve lots of email go through the options and choose No when ever you see "Should administrator get notices when ... ". If these option are all set to yes the administrator will receive email everytime someone subscribes, unsubcribes, when there are bounces and pending requests, ...!

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Reply Addresses

How to send replies to a certain email address and not to the mailing list

  1. Go to the administrative page for the list
  2. Click on the General options
  3. Scroll down to
  4. Select Explicit Address
  5. Enter in the email address in the textbox.
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    How to Add Topics

    Mailman has the capability to send messages to email addresses based on the topic of the message. Mulitple topics can be defined in mailman and the members can choose which topics they would like to recieve. The use of topics can eliminate the need for multiple list

    1. Go to the administrative page for the list
    2. Under the Configuration Category click on Topics
    3. Enable the topic filtering by checking Enabled on the first line under topics.
    4. Enter in the number of lines to scan for the keyword
    5. Enter in the first topic and the regular expression it should match
    6. If a new topic needs to be entered click on Add New Item
    7. After adding all the topics needed click on submit changes

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    How to Modify Individual Members

    1. Go to administration page
    2. Click on Membership Management
    3. Click on [Membership List]
    4. Scroll Down
    5. Do a search for email or locate in table
    6. Modify the members options

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