Lyris

Action Phrases

Action phrases tell Lyris to look for certain words and respond by mailing the document you specify.

When mail is sent to a mailing list, the message is first checked to see if it contains any action phrases. If it does, the mail is rejected, and a response document is mailed back.

You can also define Action Phrases which check mail sent to the List Server address (lyris@hostname…). To do this, you set the Action Phrase Context to "lyris@".

You may want to prohibit swearing on certain mailing lists.

Also, you can set up a "document robot" which responds to certain phrases (such as "sales info" or "price list") by sending back the appropriate document. To set up a document robot, you would set up a mailing list with no members (perhaps called robot) and install action phrases on that mailing list.

If the user clicks on the Action Phrases button on the Server Admin Menu, a page will be displayed where the user can choose to either Edit or Delete an existing Action Phrase, or create a new one.

Here is what the first page looks like. The annotation numbers point to the notes below.

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(1) Action Phrase List
The currently existing Action Phrases are listed here. Each Action Phrase is listed in one line of the list box.

(2) Edit Phrase
Clicking this button will bring the user to an Edit Phrase page, with all the same fields as the Create Phrase page. The Phrase to be edited will be the Phrase currently selected in the Action Phrase List.

(3) Delete Phrase
Clicking this button delete the Phrase currently selected in the Action Phrase List.

(4) Create Phrase
Clicking this button will bring the user the Create Action Phrase Page.

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Create Phrase

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