Re: [cobalt-users] Raq3: Adding footer to mailinglists

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "NetHut: Support" <support@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Does anyone know if, and how, one can add footers to posts on the majordomo
> mailinglists on the Raq3?


Sure. But you have to do it through Telnet.

Log in as root and do

cd /usr/local/majordomo

If you do

ls -l

You'll see that all your web sites have directories in there (for 
future majordomo activity).

Just cd to the directory of the site where your list is and then to 
the sub-directory that says "lists".

Summing up, if you list is a www.per.com, you could cd to

cd /usr/local/majordomo/www.per.com/lists

There's you'll see your list's configuration file. For a list called 
"perlist", it would be perlist.config. Open that in some Unix text 
editor (vi, pico, etc.) and you just scroll down the configuration to 
the line that says

message_footer

Now, what you'll see there is

message_footer      <<  END
END

You put your footer material BETWEEN the END words (they are there to 
tell Majordomo that this is text to be included) with no blank lines 
in between text lines. Like this.

message_footer      <<  END
Here's our footer

END

You can include a carriage return or black line between the end of 
your text and the LAST ("closing") END. BUT no other blank lines 
anywhere. If you need to have a blank line show up in your footer 
text, just type one dash:
-
and it will make a blank line. Majordomo stops returning the text the 
moment it sees an actual blank line.

By the way, this stuff is very well covered on the Majordomo faq and 
documentation materials so you might want to check there for better 
and fuller instructions. Best place to start is at their site: 
www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/

Hope this helps though.

Alfredo


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