Mailing Lists

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Derrick Lin
May 18, 2024
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[ 1 Mailing lists derived from class membership ] [ 2 Mailing lists derived from enrolment files ] [ 3 Self maintained Mailing lists ]

Mailing lists derived from class membership

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Virtual Aliases

  • COMP9999_Student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

Student memberships starts two weeks before term and expires two weeks into next term.

  • During the period of change, avoid using COMP9999_student-list.

  • Instead add t0, t1, t2, t3 to email students of a particular term.

    • COMP9999t0_Student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

    • COMP9999t1_Student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

    • COMP9999t2_Student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

    • COMP9999t3_Student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

  • To see who is on the mailing list,

    • acc COMP9999t1_Student/

    • members COMP9999t1_Student

  • COMP9999_Tutor-list@cse.unsw.edu.au

Tutor memberships expires end of Week 2 next term.

  • If the course ran last term, Tutor-list includes last term's tutors for two weeks into term.

  • To avoid this, add t0, t1, t2, t3 e.g. COMP9999t3_Tutor-list for term 3 tutors only

  • COMP9999-list@cse.unsw.edu.au - Student, tutor, lecturer, supervisor lists

Beware of memberships overlapping terms

members -? Usage: members [options] <group> -z, --zid Sort by zid -u, --show-username Show primary username -e, --show-email Show UNSW email -l, --list List matching groups -?, --help Show this help message

Mailing lists derived from enrolment files

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Enrol Pageboy

Self maintained Mailing lists

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi mlalias or type on the commandline

  • Examples

    • To create a tutor mailing list,

      % ssh cs9999@localhost % mlalias cs9999.20T3.tutors -C -c "24T2 COMP9999 tutors" % mlalias cs9999.20T3.tutors -a z5555555 % mlalias cs9999.20T3.tutors -s 'z5555555,...'

    • To create a student mailing list,

      mlalias cs9999.24T2.students -C \ -s `grep COMP9999 ~sms/sturec/data/24T2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed -e 's/^/z/' | tr '\n' ','`