These variables, grouped under the general list personality section,
control some public information about the mailing list.
real_name
Every mailing list has both a posting name and a real
name. The posting name shows up in urls and in email addresses,
e.g. the mylist in mylist@example.com. The posting
name is always presented in lower case, with alphanumeric
characters and no spaces. The list's real name is used in some
public information and email responses, such as in the general
list overview. The real name can differ from the posting name by
case only. For example, if the posting name is mylist, the
real name can be Posting.
owner
This variable contains a list of email addresses, one address per
line, of the list owners. These addresses are used whenever the
list owners need to be contacted, either by the system or by end
users. Often, these addresses are used in combination with the
moderator addresses (see below).
moderator
This variable contains a list of email addresses, one address per
line, of the list moderators. These addresses are often used in
combination with the owner addresses. For example, when
you email mylist-owner@example.com, both the owner and
moderator addresses will receive a copy of the message.
description
In the general list overview page, which shows you every available
mailing list, each list is displayed with a short description.
The contents of this variable is that description. Note that in
emails from the mailing list, this description is also used in the
comment section of the To: address. This text should
be relatively short and no longer than one line.
info
This variable contains a longer description of the mailing list.
It is included at the top of the list's information page, and it
can contain HTML. However, blank lines will be automatically
converted into paragraph breaks. Preview your HTML though,
because unclosed or invalid HTML can prevent display of parts of
the list information page.
subject_prefix
This is a string that will be prepended to the
Subject: header of any message posted to the list.
For example, if a message is posted to the list with a
Subject: like:
Subject: This is a message
and the subject_prefix is [My List] (note the
trailing space!), then the message will be received like so:
Subject: [My List] This is a message
If you leave subject_prefix empty, no prefix will be added
to the Subject:. Mailman is careful not to add a
prefix when the header already has one, as is the case in replies
for example. The prefix can also contain characters in the list's
preferred language. In this case, because of vagarities of the
email standards, you may or may not want to add a trailing space.
anonymous_list
This variable allows you to turn on some simple anonymizing
features of Mailman. When you set this option to Yes,
Mailman will remove or replace the From:,
Sender:, and Reply-To: fields of any
message posted to the list.
Note that this option is simply an aid for anonymization, it
doesn't guarantee it. For example, a poster's identity could be
evident in their signature, or in other mail headers, or even in
the style of the content of the message. There's little Mailman
can do about this kind of identity leakage.
