1 .TH MAILMAINT 1 "28 Jan 1988" "Project Athena"
4 mailmaint \- maintain mailing lists for a user
8 .I maintmaint allows a user to examine public mailing lists and add or
9 remove him/herself from such lists. It does this using Moira, the Athena
10 Service Management System.
12 When started, it will display a menu with the following options:
15 1. Show all mailing lists.
16 2. Get all members of a mailing list.
17 3. Display lists of which you are a member.
18 4. Show description of list.
19 5. Add yourself to a mailing list.
20 6. Delete yourself from a mailing list.
24 The first option will display all mailing lists that are not
25 explicitly hidden. The second option will display the members of a
26 named list. The third will display the names of the lists you belong
27 to. The next option will give a description of any list that you
30 The next two options allow you to add or delete yourself to or from
31 public mailing lists. If the person creating a mailing list has not
32 made it public, you will not be allowed to change it. Even if it is
33 public, you can only add or delete yourself, you cannot affect the
34 others on the list. For other list operations (which are only allowed
35 to the administrators of a list), see
38 Each of the menus presented works in the same way: A list of possible
39 choices is presented, each preceded by a number. The title of the
40 function is displayed at the top of the screen, centered, and the
41 current choice is highlighted. To make a choice, press the number of
42 the choice, which will then be highlighted. To confirm this
43 choice, press the return key.
45 There will usually be a
48 .I Return to previous level
49 option available in each menu. The exception to this is during mailing
50 list creation; a type for the list must be selected from a menu.
51 Typing the interrupt character (normally CTRL-C) or the return key
52 during a database access or while being prompted for a menu
53 selection will act the same as a
55 Typing the interrupt character
56 during a text input will cancel the operation and return to
59 If information is needed that cannot be entered via a menu (e.g. a
60 description of the mailing list's purpose and/or use), the user will be
61 prompted for such information.
65 path name of your Kerberos ticket. Moira decides who you are and what you
66 can do based on your Kerberos tickets, and nothing else.
69 information about the capabilities of the terminal and how to use them.
73 Peter J. Levine, MIT Project Athena