Example 1: Adding a Subscriber to an Open List
Header: | To: majordomo@bu.edu Subject: Any commands in the subject will be ignored by Majordomo |
Body: | subscribe my-list somebody@somewhere |
Example 2: Adding a Subscriber to a Closed List
Header: | To: majordomo@bu.edu Subject: Any commands in the subject will be ignored by Majordomo |
Body: | approve PASSWORD subscribe my-list somebody@somewhere |
Example 3: Deleting a Subscriber from a List
Header: | To: majordomo@bu.edu Subject: Any commands in the subject will be ignored by Majordomo |
Body: | unsubscribe my-list somebody@somewhere |
Example 4: Email message requesting info
Header: | To: majordomo@bu.edu Subject: Any commands in the subject will be ignored by Majordomo |
Body: | lists help |
Example 5: Example of a successful approval using Forward
To approve a bounced message, forward it to your list and add an “Approved:” line at the very top. Before sending, you may need to delete bits of extraneous information that your email software may have inserted at the top of the message (for example, your automatic signature, if you have one, or any header lines that aren’t part of the original message). Majordomo does not remove these automatically.
 | This is what you send: |
Header: | To: my-list@bu.edu Subject: Re: Bounced Message |
Body: | Approved: PASSWORD <– you add this line Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:17:48 -0500 From: “Somebody” <somebody@somewhere> To: my-list@bu.edu Subject: Test messageThis is a test message to the my-list mailing list. Please ignore this message…this is only a test. Thanks. –Somebody |
When Majordomo receives your approval message, it will extract the original message and distribute it to your list. Your list’s subscribers will never see your approval message, but will instead see the original message.
 | This is what Majordomo will pretend that it received: |
Header: | Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:17:48 -0500 From: “Somebody” <somebody@somewhere> To: my-list@bu.edu Subject: Test message |
Body: | This is a test message to the my-list mailing list. Please ignore this message…this is only a test.Thanks. –Somebody |