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Mailman for Users and List Administrators

Training

In City Of London ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Class hours

    4h

Mailman is an open source program for managing electronic mail discussions and e-newsletter lists. Many open source mailing lists (including all the Ubuntu mailing lists) use Mailman as their mailing list software. It is powerful, easy to install and easy to maintain. Suitable for: This course is for the users and list administrators of Mailman. It can be tailored to client specific needs.

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Subjects

  • Options
  • HTML
  • Internet
  • Email
  • Office IT
  • GNU
  • Web
  • Public
  • Install
  • Architectural

Course programme

Course review:

Introduction

What is a mailing list?

GNU Mailman and other mailing list software

Mailman's interfaces

The web interface

The email interface

Subscribing and unsubscribing

How do I join a list? (subscribe)

How do I leave a list? (unsubscribe)

Passwords

How do I get my password?

How do I change my password?

How do I turn password reminders on or off? (reminders option)

Changing mail delivery

How do I turn mail delivery on or off? (delivery option

How can I avoid getting duplicate messages? (duplicates option)

How do I change my subscription address?

How do I stop or start getting copies of my own posts? (myposts option)

How can I get Mailman to tell me when my post has been received by the list? (ack option)

I don't seem to be getting mail from the lists. What should I do?

Digests mode

How can I start or stop getting the list posts grouped into one big email? (digest option)

What are MIME and Plain Text Digests? How do I change which one I get? (digest option)

Mailing list topics

How do I make sure that my post has the right topic?

How do I subscribe to all or only some topics on a list?

How do I get or avoid getting messages with no topic set?

Setting other options

Change Globally? Set Globally? What does that mean?

How do I change my name as Mailman knows it?

How do I set my preferred language?

How do I avoid having my name appear on the subscribers list? (the hide option)

Other common questions

How do I view the list archives?

What does Mailman do to help protect me from unsolicited bulk email (spam)?

Administering Mailman mailing listsIntroduction

A List's Email Addresses

Administrative Roles

A List's Web Pages

Basic Architectural Overview

The List Configuration Pages

The General Options Category

The Passwords Category

The Language Options Category

The Membership Management Category

The Non-digest Options Category

The Digest Options Category

The Privacy Options Category

The Bounce Processing Category

The Archiving Options Category

The Mail/News Gateway Category

The Auto-responder Category

The Content Filtering Category

The Topics Category

Membership Management

Pending to Pending Moderator Requests

Editing the Public HTML Pages

Deleting the Mailing List

Mailman for Users and List Administrators

Price on request