====== Mailing Lists ======

Basic web signup form [[https://acm.cs.uic.edu/mailsignup]]


====== Using ======

There are 3 types of lists used by the UICACM,
listserv, mailman, and google groups.  listserv is hosted at listserv.uic.edu by the university. Google groups is hosted by google as part of UIC's gapps partnership.

We host mailman on acm.cs.uic.edu.

**acm OR acm-announce are the lists being referred to when told to sign up to the ACM mailing list**

===== ListServ =====

The UIC-ACM has several mailing lists.

To subscribe to these lists, send an email to listserv@listserv.uic.edu with the contents “SUBSCRIBE listname FirstName LastName“

To send a message to a list, email listserv@listserv.uic.edu

    * acm (higher volume, announcements and discussions)

    * lug

To un-subscribe to these lists, send an email to listserv@listserv.uic.edu with the contents “SIGNOFF listname“

===== Mailman Lists =====

To subscribe to any of the lists, send a blank email to listname-subscribe@acm.cs.uic.edu or visit https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

    * acm-announce (low volume, announcements only)  

see a list of lists here: [[https://acm.cs.uic.edu/mailman]]
subscribe either by going to the list web page or sending an email to //listname//-subscribe@acm.cs.uic.edu




====== Administration ======

Mailman has 4 password types
  * List Creator - Single Password Needed to Create New Lists
  * List Admin - The individual shared admin password for a particular list
  * List Moderator - Shared password that only allows for a smaller subset of admin functions
  * Poster - Require password for posters to list (rare)

===== Forgotten Mailman Password =====

Talk to a sysadmin, or email sigsysadmin AT acm.cs.uic.edu, they should have a up to date list of the passwords for the mailing lists, or can do a reset.

===== list password reset =====

  cd /usr/lib/mailman/bin
  sudo ./change_pw -l list-name
  
==== web interface ====

mailman can be administered from here:

https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin

===== Shell Interface =====

Admins and ACM Officers should have access to admin the mailing list via the sudo command.

The commands for managing Mailman from the command line are located in 

  /usr/lib/mailman/bin

the shell can be used to reset passwords for things

resets sitepassword
  mmsitepass

add a user to a list, handy if you are not a list admin but have sudo access
  echo myemailaddress@example.com | sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members  -r - acm-announce

===== Mailman not working =====
If no posts are going out:

  - watch /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/maillog.  These are the responibility of postfix.
  - watch /var/lib/mailman/log/*  These are the mailman log files

If the mail is being delevired to `/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post sigsysadmin`  but no email comes out:
  systemctl stop mailman
  ls -l /var/lib/mailman/locks
  rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/locks/*

==== acm ====
the acm list is not hosted on acm.cs.uic.edu, it is hosted at listserv.uic.edu
if you need admin access, ask an admin to add you as an admin.

If there are no more admins around, I would email consult@uic.edu, and ask for it.  They might require a faculty member make the request.

[[http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/LSCommands.html]]
==== acm-announce ====
https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/acm-announce

by default, everyone joins this list as moderated, meaning they cannot post to the list.  if you need to be un-moderated, go to https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/acm-announce/members, find your email address, and make sure the **mod** column is __unchecked__. You can also select the option to add a sender to the Accept list/remove their mod flag when approving an email that has been blocked for moderator approval.

==== acm-officers ====

A private list for ACM's officers. It is open for anyone to email, emails are sent to acm-officers@uic.edu.