Platforms

All


Abstract

The space-delimited list of Internet addresses of the "LISTSERV maintainers", that is, the people in charge of operating the LISTSERV service who are to be granted maintainer privileges and notified of problems with the operation of the server.


Example

z/VM:

POSTMASTER = 'NATHAN@EXAMPLE.COM Hide: LIAM@EXAMPLE.COM Quiet: ERIC@EXAMPLE.COM'

Unix:

POSTMASTER="NATHAN@EXAMPLE.COM Hide: LIAM@EXAMPLE.COM Quiet: ERIC@EXAMPLE.COM"

Windows:

POSTMASTER=NATHAN@EXAMPLE.COM Hide: LIAM@EXAMPLE.COM Quiet: ERIC@EXAMPLE.COM


Details

Please note that userids such as ‘postmaster@somehost.com’ or ‘listserv-maintainer@somehost.com’ cannot be defined as LISTSERV maintainers because they will be trapped by LISTSERV’s built-in loop-checking heuristics. If it is desired to have an "generic" address listed as the POSTMASTER address (for instance, in the output of the RELEASE or HELP commands), L-Soft suggests using a userid such as ‘lstmaint’ or 'listmaster'.

The SHOW VERSION, RELEASE and HELP commands report the names and addresses of all the LISTSERV maintainers, allowing users to determine where to report problems. However, you can insert a "Hide:" keyword in the list, causing all the addresses that follow to be hidden from SHOW VERSION, RELEASE or HELP. Similarly, a "Quiet:" keyword indicates that all the addresses that follow should be granted privileges, but should not be notified of problems with the service.


Default Value

None. This parameter must be set explicitly.


Wildcards

Not allowed.