Simple Email Lists

We have several "simple" email lists for notification-type messages of interest to a limited audience. The idea is to keep automatically generated notifications off the collboration-wide official mailing lists. Interested parties can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves and others, you need only have privilege to check out and check in to the Hall D Subversion repository.

The Lists

List Name	Frequency	Description
nightly_build	daily	Errors and warnings from the nightly build of GlueX software
b1pi	Mondays and Thursdays	Notification of completion of the bi-weekly b1pi reconstruction job
single_track	Tuesdays and Fridays	Notification of completion of the bi-weekly single track reconstruction job

Subscribing

If you would like to subscribe to one of these lists there are two methods for doing so.

Method A

Write an email to marki@jlab.org and say that you want to subscribe.

Method B

1. Check out the directory "listname" using the command:

   svn checkout https://halldsvn.jlab.org/repos/trunk/scripts/simple_email_list/lists/listname
   

   where "listname" is the name from the table above.

2. In the resulting directory, edit the file "list.txt" adding your email address.
3. Check "list.txt" back in.

Unsubscribing

Reverse one of the subscription methods mentioned above.

Creating a New List

1. Under subversion, create a directory, for example my_new_list, under trunk/scripts/simple_email_list/lists:

   svn mkdir https://halldsvn.jlab.org/repos/trunk/scripts/simple_email_list/lists/my_new_list

2. Populate that directory (under subversion) with two files:
   • subject.txt: one line containing the subject of all mail messages
   • list.txt: email addresses, one per line