Introduction to Majordomo
Majordomo is a Perl script which automates the
management of Internet mailing lists. It is executed via electronic
mail; users send email to "majordomo" with instructions
in the body of the message, and the Perl script performs the requested
actions and responds with the results. Any text in the "Subject:"
line is ignored.
Commands
Majordomo understands the following commands (arguments in "[]"
are optional):
- subscribe list [address]
- Subscribe yourself (or address if specified) to the named
list.
- unsubscribe list [address]
- Unsubscribe yourself (or address if specified) from the named
list.
- get list file
- Get the file related to list.
- index list
- Return an index of the files you can get
associated with list.
- which [address]
- Find out to which lists you (or address if specified) are
subscribed.
- who list
- Find out who is on the named list.
- info list
- Retrieve the general introductory information for the named
list.
- lists
- Show the lists served by this Majordomo server.
- help
-
Retrieve an informational message, a brief synopsis of the user portion of
this manual page.
- end
- Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).
Author
Majordomo and most of the ancillary perl code was written by
Brent Chapman.
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