Mailman: Permission Levels

Overview

Interaction with mailing lists is dependent upon your relationship to the list. The way in which you access your list and the privileges you have differ based upon whether you are an administrator, moderator, or subscriber. See below for detailed information as to how to access your list and interact with it.

Table of contents

• List administrator
• List moderator
• List subscriber

List administrator

List administrators are the people who have ultimate control over all parameters of this mailing list. When creating a mailing list, the initial list administrator is set to a specific email address. The list administrator can be changed, or new list administrators can be added, by logging into the list and going to General Options.

Accessing Your List

To access your list, go to lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/admin/LISTNAME, where LISTNAME is replaced by the name of your list.

• It will prompt you for your list administrator password. If you forget your password, please submit a request through the Email Lists page. 
• From within the admin page of your list, you can change your list settings. For an overview of the general options for your list, go to General Options for Mailman

Password Options

The password configuration category is the place where you can change the list administrator password or enter a new list moderator password.

• The list administrators are the people who have ultimate control over all parameters of this mailing list.
• The list moderators have more limited permissions; they are not able to change any list configuration variable, but they are allowed to tend to pending administration requests, including approving or rejecting held subscription requests, and disposing of held postings.
  • To split the list ownership duties into administrators and moderators, you must set a separate moderator password in the fields, and also provide the email addresses of the list moderators in the general options section of Mailman.
• The password configuration category is the place where you can change the list administrator password or enter a new list moderator password. 

For more information about list administrator and moderator passwords, see the Mailman List Management Guide.

List Moderator

List moderators have more limited permissions. They are not able to change any list configuration variable, but they are allowed to tend to pending administration requests, including approving or rejecting held subscription requests, and disposing of held postings.

Accessing Your List

To access your list, go to lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/admindb/LISTNAME, where LISTNAME is replaced by the name of your list.

• It will prompt you for your list moderator password. If you forget your password, please submit a Email Lists Request.
• After logging into the list, you will be able to approve or reject subscription requests and list postings.

List Subscriber

List subscribers receive postings to the list. To subscribe to a list, go to lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME, where LISTNAME is replaced by the name of the list you wish to subscribe to.

Once there, fill out the form under Subscribing to LISTNAME and press Subscribe.

Alternatively, you can subscribe by sending an email to LISTNAME-join@lists.uoregon.edu, where LISTNAME is replaced by the list you wish to join. The subject and body are ignored, so you can leave those blank.

Accessing Your List

Once you are subscribed to the list (depending on the list this may mean confirming your subscription by email or approval from a moderator), you can alter your subscription settings.

To do so, go to lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/options/LISTNAME, where LISTNAME is replaced by the name of the list you are accessing.

It will prompt you to log in with your email and password.

Additional Assistance

If you have questions about Mailman, visit the Email List service page.