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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: jdanvers on November 17, 2004, 05:45:09 PM
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Anyone using this contrib? I found it via searching here on contribs.org, and found a good how-to on installing it here:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/ezmlm-web%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm
It installs, adds the panel thing in server-manager, but actual usage of it is, ummmm - a bit cryptic. (To me anyway... :-? )
Basically what I want to do is have an "announce only" list. The default behaviour for this thing is a typical mailing list where subscribers have full interaction - ie; traffic is two way. Long story short - a friend of mine has cancer, and has been e-mailing out updates on his chemo treatments to a bunch of people (several hundred, if not thousand by now!) and he knows for a fact that some of his distribution lists are a little wacked. I proposed this idea to him as it would make it a lot easier to manage than manually mailing people and having some people get the same updates 2 and 3 times (duplicate entries in different distribution lists)
Anyone familiar with this thing? Basically I'm just not sure what check boxes to check / uncheck in the web interface that the contrib provides.
Thanks folks!
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I guess the most important setting is "others rejected", which will only allow moderators to post to the list.
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Holk - thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately (at least for me, on this particular list that I've setup and am playing with) not. ;( I just tried that.
I have one user who is defined as a moderator (me). I have another subscriber to the list (myself, but from work using my work e-mail address) I posted to the list after making that change using my work mail account. I got the message from the list. {sigh}
Bummer... I'm starting to think that command line usage of this thing is going to be easier to figure out than this cryptic web interface....
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