Subscribing

Subscribe-listname

To subscribe to a list, send an email with no message to subscribe-listname@yourserver or listname-subscribe@yourserver.

For example:

subscribe-jazztalk@example.net

jazztalk-subscribe@example.net

The following words may be used instead of subscribe:

• sub
• join
• on
• signon
• subscribe
• subscibe (a common misspelling)
• suscribe (a common misspelling)

Aurea List Manager automatically determines, by receiving the email, that the person wants to subscribe to a list called "jazztalk", and it automatically determines their email address and name.

Subscription Options

Members may specify their membership type (that is, the kind of mail they would like to receive) when they subscribe by specifying the option in place of the word subscribe.

Example:

digest-jazztalk@example.net

The following may be used instead of subscribe to join a list with the specified membership type:

• digest
• mimedigest
• index
• nomail

Subscribing with the Listmanager@ Command

You can subscribe to a mailing list by sending a subscribe command to the listmanager@yourserver.com address. The listmanager@ address is referred to as the Aurea List Manager address in this documentation.

When sent to the Aurea List Manager address, any of the following subscribe syntaxes are acceptable:

• subscribe listname
• subscribe listname password
• subscribe listname "your name"
• subscribe listname "your name" password
• subscribe listname password "your name"

The password syntax are only applicable if the mailing list is password protected, and in such a case the password must be specified at subscription time in order to be accepted. In the cases where the person's name is specified next to the Password, Aurea List Manager is able to extract the password from the text, and correctly understands that what remains is the person's name.

In the above prototypes, the your name labels are place holders where the person subscribing can insert their name. The person's name does not need to be two words—all the words in double quotes is understood as the person's name.

For instance, the following subscribe command is valid:

subscribe jazz-discuss "Mr. James Barton Smith"

If the subscriber does not specify their name on the subscribe command line, Aurea List Manager attempts to determine the person's name from their email address. For example, if their email message says:

From: James Smith <jsmith@acme.com>

Aurea List Manager extracts the name James Smith and apply it as part of this member's subscription settings.

The quiet modifier

If you add the word "quiet" to the subscribe command, Aurea List Manager does not send a confirming message back, unless the subscription fails for some reason. For instance, for a list called "jazztalk", you could join it with this command: subscribe jazztalk quiet

The public domain list server "majordomo" uses a listname-request@yourserver.com address, and Aurea List Manager supports this convention for compatibility.

When sent to the listname-request address, any of the following subscribe syntax are acceptable:

• subscribe
• subscribe password
• subscribe "your name"
• subscribe "your name" password
• subscribe password "your name"

All these ways of joining a mailing list is equivalent. It is up to you which method you decide to tell your users to use. There is no “Best Way”, just a way that you are most comfortable with.