With PMDF DB you can create and maintain your own mailing lists.
A mailing list is merely a collection of e-mail addresses with
which you associate an alias. Or, looked at a little differently,
a mailing list is an alias which expands to a list of e-mail
addresses. When you address a mail message to the alias, it
actually goes to all of the addressees listed in the mailing
list. The act of sending a mail message to a mailing list is
referred to as "posting".
A mailing list is created in three steps:
1. Create a text file containing the list of e-mail addresses
associated with the mailing list. Each address should be on a
separate line in the file. The file itself is referred to as a
"mailing list file"; the addresses in the file are the mailing
list's membership.
2. Set the protection of the mailing list file so that it is
world readable
$ SET PROTECTION=(W:R) filename
Here, FILENAME is the name of the mailing list file created in
Step 1.
3. Choose an alias name, ALIAS-NAME , to associate with the
mailing list. Then, in PMDF DB, issue the commands
db> add alias-name "<filename"
db> set alias-name public
FILENAME should include a full path specification including
the disk and directory name.
After these steps have been taken, the mailing list is set up and
ready to use.
For example, suppose the user sue@example.com wants to set up a
mailing list named sample-list. The members of the mailing list
will be bob@example.com, judy@example.com, ralph@sample.com,
and sue@example.com. Sue first creates the mailing list file
D1:[SUE]SAMPLE.DIS which contains the four lines
bob@example.com
judy@example.com
ralph@sample.com
sue@example.com
She then makes sure the distribution file is world readable by
explicitly setting its protection with the DCL SET PROTECTION
command,
$ SET PROTECTION=(W:R) D1:[SUE]SAMPLE.DIS
Finally, Sue establishes the public alias FOO-LIST as follows:
$ PMDF DB
db> add foo-list "<d1:[sue]sample.dis"
db> set foo-list public
db> show foo-list attributes
Key Value
----------- -----------------------------
foo-list <d1:[sue]sample.dis
Attributes: public,no-expand,block-receipts,mail-address
[1 entries shown]
db>
By declaring the list to be public, Sue is allowing other
people to post messages to this mailing list. They should do
so by addressing their messages to sue+sample-list@example.com.
Messages so addressed will then be received by the members of the
list as specified by the contents of the file D1:[SUE]SAMPLE.DIS.
At any time you can add or remove members from the mailing list.
You do so by simply editing the mailing list file removing or
adding addresses from or to it.
As another example, mailing lists defined in LDAP can also be
used, for example:
db> add ldap_all_users <"""ldap:///dc=example,dc=edu?mail?sub?(cn=*)"""
Note the three double-quotes around the LDAP URL. This is
required.