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- From: shah.khatri@asu.edu
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
- Subject: RE: Help setting up mailing lists
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:41:00 GMT
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- Thanks, Dan!
-
- ----------
- >From: Daniel C. Newman
- >To: Shah.Khatri; IPMDF
- >Subject: Re: Help setting up mailing lists
- >Date: Wed, Nov 11, 1992 12:03PM
- >
- >> We have a news server with newsgroups such as email.msmail.appletalk.
- I'd
- >> like to create MAILSERV mailing lists with the same name, as far as the
- user
- >> is concerned.
- >>
- >> If I create .DIS files by replacing periods with underscores, users also
- >> will have to replace periods with underscores when they SUBSCRIBE.
- >>
- >> Can the mapping file be used to change the command sent to MAILSERV? For
- >> instance, map SUBSCRIBE EMAIL.MSMAIL.APPLETALK ... to SUBSCRIBE
- >> EMAIL-MSMAIL-APPLETALK ...?
- >
- >For the time being, you're only option is to change the list names. We'll
- >look
- >into adding for 4.2 a mapping table to map list names to mailing list file
- >names.
- >
- >Note that the source to MAILSERV ships with PMDF. Some simple code
- additions
- >will allow periods in list names to be translated to hyphens. In a
- separate
- >message I'll send you such a modified version of MAILSERV. The
- translations
- >are hard-coded and do not use mapping tables.
- >
- >Dan
- >
-