- Click the Help button to view or edit the help
text that is sent to anyone who requests help or sends an invalid command
to this list.
- Click the Subscribe button to view or edit the
confirmation text that will be sent to each person who submits a
successful subscribe request to this list.
- Click the Header button to view or edit the text
message that appears at the beginning of every message sent to the
list.
- Click the Trailer button to view or edit the
text message that appears at the end of every message sent to the
list.
- Click the Users button to view or edit the list
of addresses that this list sends mail to. You can add, modify, or delete
your list user's e-mail addresses. Note that this list of addresses is
automatically updated by the list server: when a user subscribes to the
list, their e-mail address is added; when a user unsubscribes, their
e-mail address is delete.
- Select options that determine how the list operates, and then
click Set List Options.
Reply to List. Make replies (from subscribers)
go to the list, rather than the sender.
Enable Digest Mode. Groups the
messages sent to this list into a digest, then sends the digest
periodically. See Digest Options for
more information.
Enable Subject modification. to prepend a text
string to the subject line of every message sent to the list. For example,
if you enter [Discussion List] as the prepended text, a message with the
subject, Parrot, will appear on the list server with the subject line:
Subject: re:[Discussion List] Parrot. The default text is the name of this
list.
Enable Header. Displays a text message at the
beginning of every message sent to the list. Click the
Header button to view or modify the message.
Enable Trailer. Displays a text message at the
beginning of every message sent to the list. Click the
Trailer button to view or modify the message.
Maximum message size. Enter the Maximum message
size in bytes of a message that can be sent to this list. Enter 0 if you
want the size to be unlimited.
Number of Recipients per Message. You must
calculate this number; it determines the number of recipients each SMTP
process will send to. If you expect under 2000 users subscribing to the
list, enter 25. If you expect over 2000 users subscribing to the list,
divide the expected number of subscribers by 25, and enter the result as
the Number of recipients per message.
- Select the security options you want to use, and then click
Set List Options.
Anyone can post. Lets anyone on the Internet
post mail to the list. This is the default selection.
Only Subscribers can post. Lets only the
subscribers post mail.
Only Moderator can post. Lets only the list
owner post mail. Moderator is used when you want the list owner to review
all messages before they are posted to the list.
Disable List Command. A user can obtain a list
of the users subscribed to a list by addressing a message to the list
server (for example, imailsrv@domain.com) and issuing the list
listname command in the body of the message. Select this option
if you do not want users to receive a list of the subscribers to your
list-server mailing list. If the list is set to Only Subscribers
can post or Only Moderated can post, subscribers
can still send the Help or List command to obtain a list of
subscribers.
Disable Subscriptions (Private List). When
selected, a Subscribe request will be rejected. The List Administrator
must add new users manually (see Step 5).
Allow Unsubscribe based on subject line. When a
user wants to unsubscribe from the list-server mailing list, most list
servers expect the Unsubscribe command to be specified in the body of mail
message. If you want the list-server mailing list to also accept an
Unsubscribe command specified in the Subject line of the message, select
this option. When selected, the list-server mailing list will accept the
following commands in the Subject line to unsubscribe: unsubscribe,
remove, signoff.
- You can use the kill file to specify a mail address or a
particular mail host that you do not want to accept mail from. Click
Kill to view or edit the kill file. To add a mail address
or host in the kill file, enter it in the edit box, and then click the
Add button. You can use the following formats:
userid@host
@host
For example, to deny access from a user mail account, you could
enter: fred@widget.com To deny access to all users from the mail host
widget.com, you can enter: @widget.com IMail Server checks the incoming
message's From <user@host> line. When it receives mail from an address
listed in the kill file, IMail Server returns the message:
501 unacceptable mail address
To modify an address, select it in the list, make changes in the
edit box, and click Modify.
To delete an address, select it in the list or enter it in the
edit box, and click Delete.
Notes: The kill file (kill.lst) is
used by:
- The SMTP server to deny access to the mail
server.
- The List server to deny access to local mailing
lists.
The kill.lst file is in the IMail top directory and
applies to the primary host and all virtual hosts.