Starting Aurea List Manager
Aurea List Manager can be started using the UI (User Interface) or command line.
Find the below procedure to start Aurea List Manager in the tables below:
Starting Aurea List Manager for the first time on Windows
- Click Start > Programs > Lyris > Aurea List Manager > Run Aurea List Manager Now.
- From the Start menu, select Run Aurea List Manager Web Server Now.
-
From the Start menu, select Aurea List Manager Web Interface. Or, open a web browser and go to the
Aurea List Manager URL directly. For example, if the hostname is
lists.example.com, point your web browser tohttp://lists.example.com. - A screen prompts you for your admin name and password. Enter the name admin and password you selected when installing Aurea List Manager.
Starting Aurea List Manager for the first time on Unix
- Log on as
root. - Change to the Aurea List Manager directory. For example
/usr/local/lm/bin. - Run
./S96lm startto start Aurea List Manager. - Run
./S96httpd-lm startto start the Aurea List Manager Web Server. - Open a web browser and go to the
ListManagerURL. For example, if the hostname islists.example.com, point your web browser tohttp://lists.example.com. - A screen prompts you for your admin name and password. Enter the name admin and password you selected when installing Aurea List Manager.
Running Aurea List Manager for the first time (Windows and Unix)
- Log in to Aurea List Manager. After you log on for the first time, you must create a list.
- You are automatically taken to the Your First List Page, where you must create a list.
Note
You cannot proceed if you do not create and save this initial list.
- Select the purpose of the list. Email Marketing and Announcements are one-way lists from the administrator to the list members.
- Moderated and Unmoderated Discussion lists are two-way conversations among list members. Enter
Testas the list name and list description.
Note
You cannot change the list name later. If you believe you want to use this test list in production later, use a different name.
- Edit the Admin Name, Admin Email Address, and Admin Password.
- Each administrator should have a unique login. Shared logins may cause web interface conflicts.
- Click Save to save your list. You are then taken to the homepage for your new list.
Starting Aurea List Manager from the Windows command line
- Change to the directory where you installed Aurea List Manager.
- Run
lm startto start Aurea List Manager. You can also runlm start 1>lm.log 2>lm2.logto create a log while starting Aurea List Manager. - This command redirects the standard output and the error log to files in your Aurea List Manager directory, which may be examined later.
NOTE
If you type lm with no command line parameters, the available options display,
and then Aurea List Manager exists without running.
Starting Aurea List Manager from the Unix terminal
- Change to the directory where you installed Aurea List Manager.
- Run
./lm startto start Aurea List Manager. you can also run./lm start 1>lm.log 2>lm2.log. to create a log while starting Aurea List Manager. - This command redirects the standard output and the error log to files in your Aurea List Manager directory, which may be examined later.
NOTE
If you type lm with no command line parameters, the available options display,
and then Aurea List Manager exists without running.
Modifiers to the start command
The start command can be modified with a number of options. The options can be anywhere on the command line, in any order. The table below explains the options available:
| Label | Description |
|---|---|
cfgfile
|
This runs Aurea List Manager and specifies which configuration file to use. By default, Aurea List Manager uses You can use an alternate configuration file using the The |
mailtest
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, and does not actually deliver any email. It runs entirely as normal, but during the
SMTP transaction, it sends a |
morestats
|
Running Aurea List Manager in |
nocheck
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but does not check for any TCP/IP conflicts. When Aurea List Manager starts up, it first checks to see
if any other programs are using the TCP/IP addresses and ports that Aurea List Manager needs to use. Aurea List Manager
does this by trying to connect to Aurea List Manager has been configured to use. if the Multiple TCP/IP Addresses setting has been used. If one of the ports it needs is being used, Aurea List Manager displays an error message and not load. If you prefer, you can bypass this test with the |
noincoming
|
This runs Aurea List Manager but does not run the incoming mail processing service. Incoming emails are not processed. |
noindexer
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but does not run the full-text indexing service. Messages waiting to be full text indexed are not be indexed. |
nolmapi
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but disables access to the API. |
nomail
|
This runs Aurea List Manager but does not send any mail: |
nonntpserver
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but does not run the NNTP server which, allows Newsgroup access to the mailing lists. |
noscheduler
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but does not run the scheduled task manager. Tasks such as digests are not going to run. |
noscreen
|
This runs Aurea List Manager with no screen output |
nosmtpserver
|
This runs Aurea List Manager, but does not run the SMTP server, which receives mail. No incoming email is accepted. |
notclport
|
This runs Aurea List Manager with no |
tclporttrace
|
This runs Aurea List Manager so it keeps track of the current state of every |
threadtrack
|
When you start Aurea List Manager in the foreground with the |
You can view the instant status of all mail sending threads from the server statistics page, where this additional information is appended. This can be informative and useful in determining what the Aurea List Manager SMTP delivery engine is doing.