Adrian Pepper's Quick-Start Guide to Mailman List General Options

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Preface

The designers of mailman provide a page of general options to let you customize your list in various ways.

• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter/general

These don't need to be changed a lot, and usually if you do think you need to change some, you should do so in consultation with someone else.

Here are listed the options as were available at the above URL on the date this page was created. Annotations should be added as appropriate. If one particular option requires a lot of notes, perhaps create a new page for it.

• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/real_name
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/owner
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/moderator
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/description
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/info
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/subject_prefix
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/from_is_list
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/anonymous_list
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/first_strip_reply_to
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/reply_goes_to_list
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/reply_to_address
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/umbrella_list
  • mailman likes lists to have either individuals as members, or other lists as members, but not a mixture; mailman uses the term "umbrella list" to refer to a list which has other lists as members; set this flag to indicate to mailman that all members are sublists and so should not be able to log in and change their "personal" options
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/umbrella_member_suffix
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/send_reminders
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/welcome_msg
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/send_welcome_msg
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/goodbye_msg
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/send_goodbye_msg
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/admin_immed_notify
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/admin_notify_mchanges
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/respond_to_post_requests
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/emergency
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/new_member_options
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/administrivia
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/max_message_size
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/admin_member_chunksize
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/host_name
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/include_rfc2369_headers
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/include_list_post_header
• https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/admin/list-name-parameter?VARHELP=general/max_days_to_hold

-- AdrianPepper - 2018-12-14