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IMPORTANT Don't forget to change the e-mail address indicated in your home directory. (The next paragraph describes how the address is determined.) When new crew members join the Starship, a script checks every crew member's home directory. If it finds an e-mail address not included on the list of Crew subscribers, it adds the e-mail address to the list. Thus, if you simply unsubscribe your old address and subscribe your new address, your old address will be resubscribed at a later date if you forget to update the appropriate file in your home directory.
Here's how the script determines the e-mail you want to use for the Crew mailinglist. If you have a listmail entry in your .starship_info file, that address is used. If you don't have a listmail entry and you have a .forward file, the address in the .forward file is used. If you have neither a listmail entry nor a .forward file, then the email entry of your .starship_info file is used. Change the appropriate entry in the .starship_info file or the .forward file in your home directory to prevent your old address from being resubscribed to the Crew mailing list. And caution: Due to this scheme, it is not allowed to use anything else in .forward than a simple, valid e-mail adress, unless you override it with the listmail entry.
Examples:You became a starship member as user "nemo", and you email address is reading "nil@nowhere.com". Your .starship_info file reads partially like
account = "nemo" email = "nil@nowhere.com"When you became a member, your .forward file was initialized automatically to your email entry. You can of course modify .forward later, but you need to synchronize your mailman subscription as described above. Unless you remove the .forward file (which is allowed, to use the server's email system), the sole purpose of the email entry is now to be shown in the crew pages.
Later, you might decide that you don't want the crew messages in your private email, like so:
account = "nemo" email = "nil@nowhere.com" listmail = "crap@myoffice.com"Nex time that we embark new members, this listmail entry will superseede everything, and you will be subscribed to the crew list as crap@myoffice.com . The .forward file will not be touched any longer, and you can use it freely. And again, don't forget to change your subscription as shown.
Why is that so complicated? Simply since at the moment we have no chance to figure out which mailman subscription belongs to which crew member. In order not to loose anybody, we simply don't unsubscribe you, and subscribe whatever we can figure out. If someone knows an easy way to enhance this, he is hereby invited to try.
Edit this entry / Log info / Last changed on Sun Jul 18 11:27:47 1999 by pyrx