-*-Text-*- ** IMPORTANT ** Please note that this file is an example of a properly formed MAILING-LISTS.TXT file, and will probably require modification before being installed on your site. In particular, the definitions of POSTMASTER and BUG-MM may require modification to point to the individual(s) at your site responsible for the mailsystem, especially if you are not on Internet and so cannot contact MRC@SIMTEL20.ARPA directly. You will probably also want to make your own custom entries to your mailing lists file. This is one of the most powerful facilities of the MM mailsystem; you'll be missing out if you fail to take advantage of it. ** ** This the source for the mailing lists used by MMailr and the MMailbox program. Everything up to the first formfeed is a comment. The syntax of the entries in this file is: ";" <commentary text> <CRLF> or mailing_list = address-list <CRLF> with the following definitions. Note that angle brackets denote meta-words. "String" is intentionally defined as a meta-word, as its definition may change over time. If your string contains characters other than alphanumerics and you have any doubt if it is valid to use in unquoted form, quote it with double-quotes. address = mailbox | foreign_mailbox address-list = address [" " address-list] file_name = <any valid TOPS-20 filename> file_recipient = "*" file_name finger_mailbox = <any string returned as a valid mailbox name by the Finger program using the MMailbox/Finger interface> foreign_mailbox = <string> "@" <host name> indirect_file = "@" file_name mailbox = indirect_file | file_recipient | mailing_list | ["&"] user_name | finger_mailbox mailing_list = <any string defined as a valid mailing in this file> user_name = <any valid TOPS-20 user name on this host> The format of a file_recipient file should be the same as a MAIL.TXT file. The format of an indirect_file should be the same as an indirect file used by MM. The "&" character in front of a user name forces its use as such instead of as a possible mailing list/mail forwarding. For example, the right way to forward a user's name with a local copy is something like: USER= USER@OTHERHOST &USER ;********************************************************************** ; System maintenance forwardings ;********************************************************************** ; ; System Postmaster, required by RFC 822 POSTMASTER= OPERATOR ; ; MMAILR error reports go here MAILER= POSTMASTER ; ; Bug forwarding lists ; Note that BUG-RANDOM-PROGRAM is a catch-all address for unknown "BUG-xxx" BUG-RANDOM-PROGRAM= MRC BUG-MM= BUG-MM@SIMTEL20.ARPA BUG-MAIL= BUG-MM BUG-MAISER= BUG-MM BUG-MMAILBOX= BUG-MM BUG-MMAILR= BUG-MM ;********************************************************************** ; Mailing lists ;********************************************************************** ; ; Bulletin Board BBOARD= *PS:<BBOARD>MAIL.TXT ;********************************************************************** ; Personal forwardings ;********************************************************************** ; ; Mark Crispin MRC= MRC@SIMTEL20.ARPA CRISPIN= MRC MARK.CRISPIN= MRC CRISPEN= MRC