4. More information.

4.1 More about ezmlm and ezmlm-idx.

ezmlm is a mailing list manager written by Dan J. Bernstein. ezmlm-idx is an extension to ezmlm written by Frederik P. Lindberg. ezmlm has the essential features of a mailing list manager. ezmlm-idx adds useful, but non-essential features like digests, list moderation, etc. The list owner will have made the trade off of features vs. increased size and complexity. To test if your list has ezmlm-idx installed, send a message to list-get@host where ``list@host'' is the name of the list. A list with ezmlm alone will send you a help message saying that your message wasn't sent to one of its command addresses. A list with ezmlm-idx will return one or more messages from the archive, or a message telling you that the list is not archived. Throughout this manual, features available only with ezmlm-idx are marked with ``(*)''.

For more technical information about ezmlm, it's options, and error resolution, please read the FAQ ( http://www.ezmlm.org/) and the ezmlm man pages. A text version of the FAQ is included in the ezmlm-idx distribution. The latest FAQ in various formats can be found at ftp://ftp.id.wustl.edu/pub/patches/ or ftp://ftp.ezmlm.org/pub/patches/. The FAQ also contains information on where to obtain ezmlm, where to find mailing lists about ezmlm, etc. While it is called a ``FAQ'', the document will with time become the ezmlm/idx technical manual. The man pages are always installed with ezmlm. To read the man page for ezmlm, do:

        % man ezmlm

        % man ezmlm-make

Also, take a look at Dan J. Bernstein's pages on ezmlm and other programs he has written at http://www.pobox.com/~djb/ and the qmail home page at http://www.qmail.org/.

4.2 More about this document.

This document is updated for ezmlm-0.53 and ezmlm-idx-0.32. It is available at ftp://ftp.id.wustl.edu/pub/patches/ezman/ as ``ezman-x.xx.format[.tar].gz''. ``x.xx'' is the version, ``format'' is the format, e.g. ``ps'', and ``.tar'' is present if the document consists of several files. ezmlm-idx versions have a 2 digit minor version number, with a third digit added for bug fixes (no new features). Thus, 0.314 is the forth bug fix release of 0.31. Manuals and FAQ follow a similar convention with the first two digits matching the version of the package. Thus, you should always get the documentation matching the first two digits (``xx'' in ``0.xxy''), and there chose the highest ``y'' available.

This document comes with absolutely no warranties. If there are errors or omissions in this manual, please send corrections/comments to the author. The manual is intended to be complete for users and moderators/administrators. For list owners, it is intended more as a summary and introduction to the FAQ.

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