I would like to set up a newsletter. Can I get SmartList to do this?

Sure. When you use SmartList to send out an electronic newsletter, you limit the submissions accepted to yourself, and tell SmartList not to accept "foreign" submissions. Anyone who signs up will still receive the list but now cannot send to it. If you want all your lists to be newsletters, you can skip the de-link step. If you're not sure, go ahead and de-link this one.

For the list "listname,"

* Edit the rc.custom file and the rc.init file.

vi /home/username/yourdomainname-mail/listname/rc.custom
uncomment (delete the #s) foreign_submit
    comment out (precede with a #) foreign_submit= yes

vi /home/username/yourdomainname-mail/listname/rc.init
uncomment (delete #s) foreign_submit
    comment out (precede with #) foreign_submit=    yes

* Delink the accept file:

cd/home/username/yourdomainname-mail

type

.bin/delink listname/accept

When these steps are completed, the owner may send to the list by e-mailing to listname@yourdomainname.com. If anyone else attempts to mail to the list, it will be sent to the owner rather than the link. Since the owner is now the only address in the accept file for the list, no other submissions will be accepted. (You may want to type vi accept to be sure no one else snuck in there.)

NB: editing the rc.init file means that all lists created thereafter will also function as newsletters. The hard link would have to be broken for rc.init for a particular list to change this without changing this for all other lists also.

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