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You can manage your membership to the 24HourSupport on FreeLists via commands sent by email.

This is done by sending an email from the email account you are subscribed to the list with to

24hoursupport-request@freelists.org

with command words in the subject -or- the message body depending on how many commands you wish to send.

If you want to send one command to the server, put it in the subject line. Leave the body of the message blank. If your email client will not allow you to send a message with nothing in the message body, you can put anything you want there. Just type in some junk; it will be completely ignored by the server if it finds a valid command word in the subject line.

If you want to send multiple commands to the server, you can send up to five commands in one email. In this case, you must leave the subject blank, or go ahead and fill it in with whatever you'd like if your email program won't let you send email without a subject. Then put your commands in the message body, one command to a line.

Available commands and what they do are as follows:

SUBSCRIBE
Subscribes the email address you sent the request from to the list. A confirmation message is sent back to you, which you must reply to in order to confirm your subscription request.

UNSUBSCRIBE
Unsubscribes the email address you sent the request from. A confirmation message is sent back to you, which you must reply to in order to confirm your unsubscription request.

SET DIGEST
Use this command to set the way you receive messages from the list to digest mode. Instead of individual emails sent to you as they arrive on the list, you will periodically be sent a single email containing all messages sent since the last digest message was sent to you.

UNSET DIGEST
Turns digest mode off.

SET DIGEST2
This digest mode sends you all the individual messages as they arrive on the list AND sends you a digest message as described above.

UNSET DIGEST2
Turns digest2 mode off.

SET VACATION
Use this command when you want to stop receiving messages from the list for awhile but do not want to unsubscribe.

UNSET VACATION
Use this command when you want to start receiving messages from the list again after setting vacation mode.

SET ECHOPOST
Use this command if you want to receive your own messages to the list back from the list.

UNSET ECHOPOST
Use this command if you do not want copies of your own messages sent back to you.

SET ACKPOST
Use this command if you want to receive an acknowledgment message from freelists when the server receives your message. This message does not mean anyone else has received your message, only that the freelist server has.

UNSET ACKPOST
Turns ackpost mode off.

INFO
Emails you the information on this web page in a plain text file that can be opened with Notepad or any other text editor or word processor

STATS
This command will cause an email message back to you of your current settings (i.e. vacation status, digest status, etc.)

There are two additional commands you can use to get information from the FreeLists server.

These two commands must be sent to ecartis@freelists.org, not the email address given above.

LISTS
This command will cause a list of ALL mailing list groups on freelists to be mailed to you. This could be useful if you are looking to find a list on a particular subject.

WHICH
This command will cause a list of all groups that the email address you send the request message from belongs to. This could be useful if you have subscribed to a number of lists and can't remember all of them.

Here are some examples

 

In this first example, a single command is being sent to the server. The command is in the subject line, and the message body is blank.

 

In this example, multiple commands are being sent to the server.
The subject line contains information that the server will ignore, and the commands are in the message body, one command per line.

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