Stephen Carter <carter@sncarter.com> wrote:
I want to set my list so that no message is sent to new subscribers.
I've looked through the FAQ and the Manual, and read all the items in
various rc files, and can't find where to set this--I know it's most
Thanks Werner, I'll see if I have access to that on my virtual server where this site is hosted. Here's the situation--perhaps others encounter similar needs. We put people on a list when they request certain information, so that we can send out follow ups easily. Also, we have several lists, and people may sign up for several at a time, and we want to return a single message, rather than a message from each list. Perhaps our approach is wrong. We are subscribing people by sending an email to the request-listname. Would it be more "normal" in these cases for us to have a script which would write directly to the accept file? Steve the likely
right in front of me....
No. It's not implemeted, because it's rather strange to configure a list this way. New subscribers will get no notification, they will not know whether their subscribe request succeeded or how to use the list.
If you want to do this you need to modify the subscribe shell script in ~list/.bin.
Good luck,
Werner