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Re: [cobalt-developers] Mailing Lists



All of us here <jale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> config files of interest:
> /usr/local/majordomo/domain-name/lists/list-name.config
>
> You WILL want to change options in that file, read it CAREFULLY so you
> understand all the choices.
> Here are the ones I changed (that I remember):
> moderator
> subject_prefix
> message_footer
> message_fronter
> message_header
> reply_to
> administravia - and others associated with it.
>
> I haven't seen a way to allow customers to set this up themselves, maybe
> they can ftp it, not sure, I do it for them, and charge them one-time list
> setup fees per list.
</snip>

I don't believe customers can edit the list config files from telnet or FTP using the
permissions and ownership Cobalt has set.  However, if you share the administrative
password for the list with your customer, your customer can edit the list
configuration file *entirely* from email.  Sending the command "config listname
adminpassword" in the body of an email to majordomo@yourserver will retrieve the list
configuration file.  Then edit the list config. file and send it back to majordomo
with the line "newconfig listname adminpassword" as the first line in the body of the
email.  This *definitely* works on my installations of majordomo.  However, I
abandoned Cobalt's installation in favor of my own b/c theirs does not fully support
virtual domains (you can't have the same listname on multiple sites, but on my
installation you can), I wanted to install a newer version and I wanted to modify and
customize my installations.  I suggest stopping by the Majordomo 1 site
(http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/), visiting their list archives
(http://www.greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/archive.html) and joining the
majordomo-users list (put "subscribe majordomo-users" in the body of an email to
majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).  There are *a lot* of features and options built-in to
majordomo or which can be added with patches, code hacks and add-ons to do a lot of
stuff you may not be aware about - including digest list versions, archives, bounce
automation, attachment blocking, HTML blocking, etc.

FYI, mj2 (Majordomo v2) has been in development for some time and has *tons* of new,
powerful features.  You can find it at http://www.hpc.uh.edu/majordomo/#goodies.
It's still in development and  I haven't made time to install it yet, but it's
supposed to be pretty stable and definitely does a lot more than majordomo 1.  If you
want to enable archiving on Majordomo 1.94.5 (or whatever the RaQs run) and want to
convert the archives to web-based archives take a look at MHonArc
(http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html) - a product Cobalt used for this
mailing list and the user list before switching to Mailman.  I've done dozens of
installations and configurations of majordomo and MHonArc and I'm available for
installation, configuration and consulting.

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}