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2477The keywords do not work in the auto-responder facility in Mailman.
At the top of the Auto-responder configuration page for any Mailman mailing list, mention is made of four different keywords which can be used to substitute various constants. These are:
| KEYWORD | MEANING | EXAMPLE WHEN SUBSTITUTED |
| listname | The name of the mailing list | musicians |
| listurl | The mailing list's listinfo web address | https://lists.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/musicians |
| requestemail | The email address to send admin requests to the mailing list | musicians-request@sussex.ac.uk |
| owneremail | The email address to contact the mailing list's owner(s) | musicians-owner@sussex.ac.uk |
In each case, the keyword by itself will not be recognised by the autoresponder mechanism if written exactly as such in the text boxes, and needs to be written in a different way. Write them like this:
%(listname)s
%(listurl)s
%(requestemail)s
%(owneremail)s
That is, a % sign, followed immediately by the keyword in parentheses, followed immediately by the letter s.
For example, in the box for Auto-response text to send to mailing list posters, for a mailing list called musicians, if you entered 'Thank you for sending an email to the %(listname)s mailing list.' in the box, the auto-response that people will see when they sent an email to the list would be 'Thank you for sending an email to the musicians mailing list.'
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