With one exception, the positional parameters in a mailing list
specification provide alternate addresses to which certain sorts
of list related activity should be directed (e.g., an address
to which errors should be sent to rather than back to the list
itself).
The positional parameters are so named for a reason: their
position in the comma separated list distinguishes which
parameter is being specified. When more than one parameter
(positional or otherwise) is specified, they must be separated
by commas. If you want to specify a positional parameter but
omit some which come first, then specify asterisks, *, for the
positional parameters which you want to omit. For example,
db> add foo-list "<d1:[sue]sample.dis, *, *, sue@example.com"
Finally, to make the use of a positional parameter conditional,
end the parameter value with an asterisk. In this case the
value associated with the parameter will only be used if the
corresponding message header line is not present in the message
being posted to the list. (The asterisk will not appear in the
message header should the parameter take effect.)
Without further ado, the positional parameters are:
error-return-address
ERROR-RETURN-ADDRESS specifies an address to replace the
message's regular envelope From: address as well as an address
to be inserted into the header as an Errors-to: address. This
header line is not generated if this address is not specified.
reply-to-address
The REPLY-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be used as
a Reply-to: address.
errors-to-address
The ERRORS-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be placed
on the Errors-to: header, if this address should be different
from the ERROR-RETURN-ADDRESS that is used as the envelope From:
address.
warnings-to-address
The WARNINGS-TO-ADDRESS parameter specifies an address to be
placed on the Warnings-to: header line. This header line is not
generated if this address is not specified.
comments
The COMMENTS parameter specifies a string to be placed in a
Comments: header line. This header line will add to any Comments:
header lines already present in the message being posted to the
list.