Lyris

Server Admin Menu

Here is what a the Server Admin Menu looks like. The annotation numbers point to the notes below.

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(1) Sites
One Lyris Server can have as many sites as you wish. Each Site will have its own Lyris Home Page, as well as its own topics and mailing lists. Once you create a site, you can assign people to be Site Administrators, so that they have complete control over their own site, but act independently of the other sites.

For example, if you are a company with multiple departments, you could create a different site for each department. Then, someone in each of those departments could be made a Site Administrator, and they would be responsible for the mailing lists on their Site. This is an excellent way to delegate responsibilities.

Another example: if you are an Internet Service Provider, you probably want to have the least day-to-day involvement with Lyris, and want your paying customers to be responsible for their own mailing lists. If you give each customer their own Site, they will have total control over that site. Each customer will act independently of the others, and will not be able to damage what goes on in other sites.

(2) Server Config
Clicking this button brings the user to the Server Configuration page. On this page are stored several settings which apply to the entire Lyris server, such as your Lyris Serial number, and DNS server.

(3) Server documents
Clicking this button brings the user to the Documents page. Documents are used in various places within Lyris, such as the "Welcome to the mailing list" document, or a document describing your organization. Documents created in the Server Admin menu are visible in all sites. On the other hand, Documents created in the Site Admin menu are visible only in the site in which they are created.

(4) Action Phrases
Clicking on this button brings the user the Action Phrase page. Action Phrases tell Lyris to look for certain words and respond by mailing the document you specify.

(5) Auto-responders
Clicking on this button brings the user to the Auto-responder page. An autoresponder is an email address which always responds by sending a document the person who wrote it.

(6) People
Clicking on this button brings the user to the People page. You can create people on your server who hold a special role. This allows other people to be Server or List Administrators, and can also be used to hold their contact information.

(7) Log
Clicking on this button brings the user to the Log Page. You can view the log from there, which displays various operating information.

(8) Shutdown Server
Clicking on this button brings the user to a confirmation page, which asks the user to confirm that they really want to stop Lyris and shutdown the server. Once the user accepts the confirmation, the Lyris Server is shut down. At this point, the Web Interface will no longer work, since the Lyris server is no longer running.

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