3.On the Majordomo Mailing List Administration menu, enter a unique name in the New Mailing List field, then click on Add. The names of existing list are displayed in Existing Mailing Lists field.

4.Enter the e-mail address of the person who owns or will maintain the list. The list owner is defined as an alias in the mail aliases file.

5.Type a description of the purpose of the list (the list charter) in the Informational Message field. When someone sends an e-mail message to the list alias with the word “info? in the body of the message, this text is returned in the reply message.

The charter text is stored in the /data/majordomo/lists/listname.info file, where listname is the name of the list you supplied in step 3.

6.Click on Submit.

The created list will be listname@hostname, where hostname is the host name of the local system.

The Administration utility confirms on a separate page that the list has been created. A link to the Modify Configuration Parameters form (see Section : Changing a Majordomo Mailing List Configuration) is provided for your convenience.

Changing a Majordomo Mailing List Configuration

Using the Administration utility, you change the following parameters for a Majordomo mailing list:

•List owner or charter (see Section : Changing List Owner or Charter)

•Administration parameters (see Section : Changing Administration Parameters)

•Subscription parameters (see Section : Changing Subscription Parameters)

•Message content parameters (see Section : Changing Message Content Parameters)

•Digest parameters (see Section : Changing Digest Parameters)

•Command access parameters (see Section : Changing Command Access Parameters)

•Moderated list parameters (see Section : Changing Moderated List Parameters)

•List restriction parameters (see Section : Changing List Restriction Parameters)

•Address processing parameters (see Section : Changing Address Processing Parameters)

In the following sections, the Majordomo tag that is associated with each field on these forms is included. For each list, the tag and the value you specify are stored in the Majordomo configuration file for that list. The list configuration files reside in the /data/majordomo/lists/ directory; there is one configuration file per Majordomo list (listname.config). The configuration file for a list is created the first time you change the list configuration.

Changing List Owner or Charter

To change the list owner or charter of a Majordomo mailing list, follow these steps:

1.From the Administration utility Main menu, choose Manage Components.

2.Under Mail on the Manage Components menu, choose Majordomo Mailing Lists.

3.Select mailing list you want to modify from the Existing Mailing Lists list.

4.From the Modify Majordomo Mailing List menu, choose Modify Mailing List Owner or Information Message.

5.You can change the e–mail address of the person who will maintain the mailing list, or provide new charter text, or both.

6.Click on Submit.

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