Mailing lists
Not ready
The Mailing-Lists service is currently only available for select use cases. That is also the reason why this documentation may still be incomplete. We are sorry, that it is yet in english only.
Description of the service Mailing lists
Site map
Documentation for users
Index of Lists
This page shows a list of all the Mailing-Lists that are public. Depending on the Mailing-List configuration users can directly sign up for a mailing list.
https://lists.tvseth.ethz.ch/sympa/lists
The index page.
Subscribe / Unsubscribe
As a user that is not logged, you can look at public mailing lists and also subscribe / unsubscribe a mailing list, also users can access the mailing-list archive, if this feature is enabled.
FAQ
Here you will find the most important answers to frequently asked questions. If your question is not answered here, please send an e-mail to vseth-it-support@ethz.ch.
Documentation for OIV
Note
This section is only relevant for Organisational IT Managers (OIVs)
Roles in Sympa
Sympa defines the following roles in the system:
| Role | Description | How to set it | How VSETH uses it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | Anyone who can access the website | - | - |
| Authenticated User | Login with switch AAI | - | - |
| List Editor / Moderator | Allows you to edit certain features of a list. | Set per list, based on the email address (has to match AAI) | People who have to distribute emails (board, fr, etc.) |
| List Owner | Edit almost all settings of the list. | Set per list, based on the email address (has to match AAI) | ISG |
| Privileged List Owner | Edit everything on the list | Set per list, based on the email address (has to match AAI) | ISG |
| List Master | Globally, can create new lists / approve the creation requests | Set in the Sympa configuration via SSH (see | ISG |
Common configuration options
This section explains the configuration options for mailing-lists used by VSETH and what they do:
| Section | Subsection | Parameter | Explanation | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edit List Config | List Definition | Subject | ? | ? |
| Visibility | Determines who can view the list on the list index page. |
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| Language | ? | At the moment all lists default to German. | ||
| Sending / Receiving setup | Who can send messages | Determines who is allowed to send to the mailing list. | At the moment all mailing lists use Moderated even for moderators which means every message has to be approved by a moderator. | |
| Subject tagging | This value is added to the message subject with []- Brackets. | If the subject tagging is set to VSETH . A message with the subject Newsletter will have the resulting subject of [VSETH] Newsletter | ||
| Privileges | Who can view list information | Determines who can view general information about the list such as the list owner and moderators as well as the description. | ||
| Who can subscribe | Determines who is allowed to subscribe to the list. | |||
| Who can unsubscribe | Determines who is allowed to unsubscribe from the list. | |||
| Archive | Store messages into archive | Determines whether sympa keeps an archive of all messages sent to a list. | ||
| Access right | Determines who can access the message archive through the web interface. | |||
| Users | Owners | - | Configuring the owners of the mailing list. | |
| Moderators | - | Configuring the moderators of the mailing list. | ||
| Subscribers | - | Configuring subscribers of the mailing list. |