[Mailman-Users] How do I subscribe to a list by email ?

[Timothy R. Robnett]

On Fri Aug 16, 2002 at 05:41:36AM +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> I would like to create a subscribe / unsubscribe facility on my list rather 
> that getting people to go to the admin page.
> 
> I was hoping to get them  to reply with unsubscribe in the body or subject 
> line ?/
> 
> How do I do this, or can you direct me ?/

Try posting to [listname]-request at foo.org with a subject of help. 
That will yield something akin to:

  subscribe [password] [digest-option] [address=<address>]
        Subscribe to the mailing list.  Your password must be given to
        unsubscribe or change your options.  When you subscribe to the
        list, you'll be reminded of your password periodically.
        'digest-option' may be either: 'nodigest' or 'digest' (no
        quotes!)  If you wish to subscribe an address other than the
        address you send this request from, you may specify
        "address=<email address>" (no brackets around the email
        address, no quotes!)

    unsubscribe <password> [address]
        Unsubscribe from the mailing list.  Your password must match
        the one you gave when you subscribed.  If you are trying to
        unsubscribe from a different address than the one you
        subscribed from, you may specify it in the 'address' field.

    who
        See everyone who is on this mailing list.

    info
        View the introductory information for this list.

    lists
        See what mailing lists are run by this Mailman server.

    help
        This message.
<snip>

HTH

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Regards,
Timothy R. Robnett
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http://www.robnett.net/~tim/

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