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35 Mailing lists
Using mailing lists

Get a user's subscription status
PASSWORD <password>
Supply the password for moderator commands

Using the MercuryB Web Server MLSS Service to manage sub-
scriptions
If you have loaded the MercuryB Web Server and its MLSS (Mailing List Subscriber Serv-
ices) module in Mercury, your users can manage their subscriptions using any web browser.
To access the MLSS service, your users need to point their web browser at:

http://<domain_name>/mlss

Replacing “domain_name” with the name of your server. So, if your server is called foo.ex-
ample.com, your subscribers would manage their subscriptions by connecting to -

http://foo.example.com/mlss

If you have configured MercuryB to listen on a port other than the standard HTTP port (80),
then you can use the standard “:xx” notation in the URL to indicate this: so, continuing our
example above, if you had configured MercuryB to listen on port 8080, your subscribers
would manage their subscriptions by connecting to -

http://foo.example.com:8080/mlss

MLSS allows your users to subscribe to lists (where public subscription is permitted), to un-
subscribe from lists, and to manage their subscriptions. It presents simple web pages that
should need little or no explanation.

If you have checked the Web-based (using MercuryB) option in the Distribution page of the
mailing list definition, then Mercury will automatically generate URLs in the form shown
above which your users can use to manage their subscriptions.