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2.1.5 Additional settings</a>
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This section contains some miscellaneous settings for your mailing
list.
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<dt><strong>emergency</strong></dt>
<dd>When this option is enabled, all list traffic is emergency
moderated, i.e. held for moderation. Turn this option on when
your list is experiencing a flamewar and you want a cooling off
period.
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<dt><strong>new_member_options</strong></dt>
<dd>Each member has a set of subscription options which they can use
to control how they receive messages and otherwise interact with
the list. While the members can change these settings by logging
into their personal options page, you might want to set the
default for a number of the member options. You can do that with
this variable, but see also the other categories for other member
defaults you can set.
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This variable presents a set of checkboxes which control the
defaults for some of the member options. <em>Conceal the
member's address</em> specifies whether or not the address is
displayed in the list roster. <em>Acknowledge the member's
posting</em> controls whether or not Mailman sends an acknowledgement
to a member when they post a message to the list. <em>Do not
send a copy of a member's own post</em> specifies whether a member
posting to the list will get a copy of their own posting.
<em>Filter out duplicate messages to list members (if possible)</em>
specifies whether members who are explicitly listed as a recipient
of a message (e.g. via the <span class="mailheader">Cc:</span> header) will also get a
copy from Mailman.
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Of course, members can always override these defaults by making
changes on their membership options page.
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<dt><strong>administrivia</strong></dt>
<dd>This option specifies whether Mailman will search posted messages
for <em>admimistrivia</em>, in other words, email commands which
usually should be posted to the <code>-request</code> address for the
list. Setting this to <em>Yes</em> helps prevent such things as
unsubscribe messages getting erroneously posted to the list.
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If a message seems to contain administrivia, it is held for
moderator approval.
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<dt><strong>max_message_size</strong></dt>
<dd>This option specifies a maximum message size, in kilobytes, over
which the message will be held for moderator approval.
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<dt><strong>host_name</strong></dt>
<dd>This option specifies the host name part of email addresses used
by this list. For example, this is the <code>example.com</code> part of
the posting address <code>mylist@example.com</code>.
<p>
It's generally not a good idea to change this value, since its
default value is specified when the mailing list is created.
Changing this to an incorrect value could make it difficult to
contact your mailing list. Also not that the url used to visit
the list's pages is not configurable through the web interface.
This is because if you messed it up, you'd have to have the site
administrator fix it.
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</dd>
<dt><strong>include_rfc2369_headers</strong></dt>
<dd><a class="rfc" id='rfcref-1033' xml:id='rfcref-1033'
href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html">RFC 2369</a> is an internet standard that describes a bunch of
headers that mailing list managers should add to messages to make
it easier for people to interact with the list. Mail reading
programs which support this standard may provide buttons for easy
access to the list's archives, or for subscribing and
unsubscribing to the list. It's generally a good idea to enable
these headers as it provides for an improved user experience.
These headers are often called the <code>List-*</code> headers.
<p>
However, not all mail readers are standards compliant yet, and if
you have a large number of members who are using non-compliant
mail readers, they may be annoyed at these headers. You should
first try to educate your members as to why these headers exist,
and how to hide them in their mail clients. As a last resort you
can disable these headers, but this is not recommended.
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<dt><strong>include_list_post_header</strong></dt>
<dd>The <span class="mailheader">List-Post:</span> header is one of the headers
recommended by <a class="rfc" id='rfcref-1035' xml:id='rfcref-1035'
href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html">RFC 2369</a>. However for some announce-only mailing
lists, only a very select group of people are allowed to post to
the list; the general membership is usually not allowed to post to
such lists. For lists of this nature, the <span class="mailheader">List-Post:</span>
header is misleading. Select <em>No</em> to disable the inclusion
of this header. (This does not affect the inclusion of the other
<code>List-*</code> headers.)
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