NERSC Email Lists and Majordomo

NERSC maintains a number of email lists for NERSC users; see Announcements and Email Lists. Our email lists are managed by software called Majordomo.

You can join, subscribe to or cancel your participation, unsubscribe from an email list by using Majordomo commands and electronic mail. Majordomo also sends out email addressed to an email list (NERSC email lists have names of the form list_name@nersc.gov) and can provide basic information about email lists.

To use Majordomo send an email addressed to majordomo@nersc.gov.

The body of your email message should contain the Majordomo commands. Make sure that the Majordomo commands are in the body of the email message and not the Subject: field, since Majordomo ignores anything in the Subject: field.

You may put multiple Majordomo commands in the same email message. Put each command on a line by itself.

1. Finding out which lists are on this system
2. Subscribing to a List
3. Unsubscribing from a List
4. Sending Email to a List
5. Finding Out Who Is on a List
6. Getting More Information
7. Majordomo User Command Summary

1. Finding out which lists are on this system

To get a list of NERSC's publicly-available email list names, send email to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains this line, in the body of the message:

     lists

To get more information about a particular list, use the info command, supplying the name of the list. For example, if the name of the list about which you wish information is "demo-list", you would put the line

     info demo-list

in the body of the email message (however, many NERSC email lists have no "information files" associated with them).

2. Subscribing to a List

You can subscribe to a Majordomo mailing list by sending email to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains this line, in the body of the message:

     subscribe list_name 

where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list that you wish to join.

3. Unsubscribing from a List

You can unsubscribe from a Majordomo mailing list by sending email to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains this line:

     unsubscribe list_name 

where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list from which you wish to stop receiving email.

4. Sending Email to a List

You can send email to all the members of the mailing list by addressing your email to the list:

     list_name@nersc.gov 

where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list. Note that some lists have restrictions on who can send email to them.

5. Finding Out Who Is on a List

You can get a list of subscribers to a Majordomo mailing list by sending email to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains this line, in the body of the message:

     who list_name

where list_name is the name of the Majordomo mailing list for which you want the list of subscribers. Note that some lists have restrictions on who can list their subscribers.

6. More Information

For more details on other Majordomo commands, send email to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains this line, in the body of the message:

     help 

If you want to privately contact the owner of the mailing list, rather than the entire mailing list, send email addressed to owner-list_name@nersc.gov (replacing list_name with the actual name of the mailing list).

Majordomo User Command Summary

Here is a list of majordomo commands for mailing list subscribers. To use Majordomo, send a mail message addressed to majordomo@nersc.gov that contains one or more of the following commands in the body of the email. Make sure to replace list_name with the actual name of the Majordomo mailing list, and replace your_email_address with your own email address.

Options contained in [...] are optional.

help

To receive a comprehensive list and description of Majordomo user commands.

subscribe list_name your_email_address

Subscribe yourself to list_name.

unsubscribe list_name your_email_address

Unsubscribe yourself from list_name.

get list_name filename

Get the file called filename related to the list list_name.

index list_name

Return an index (or list) of files you can use with the get command for the list list_name.

which [your_email_address]

Find out which mailing lists you (or your_email_address) are subscribed to.

who list_name

Get a list of all the people who subscribe to list_name.

info list_name

Retrieve general introductory information for list_name.

lists

Show the list served by this Majordomo server.

help

Retrieve help about using Majordomo.

help

Stop processing majordomo commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).