Thanks for your help. I'm going to try to create the .mlf files with a script, first I have to understand its content.

# Mercury List Membership File for list 'hidden@novelltstephenson.com'
# Mercury Mail Transport System, Copyright David Harris, 1993-2003
#
# This file contains mailing list subscriber records in tab-delimited
# format. Provided you are careful, you can edit it using a text editor
# but you must make sure that the editor actually inserts TAB characters
# when you press the TAB key.
#
# The fields within each subscriber record appear in this order:
#
#   Status      Single character in [A,N,D,V,X]
#   Address     RFC822-reduced e-mail address
#   Name        RFC822 Ctext/Qtext component for name
#   Flags       16 printable ASCII characters
#   Postings    Postings since inception (8-digit, 0-padded)
#   SubsDate    Subscription date, YYMMDDHHMMSS
#   SubmDate    Last submission date
#   VacDate     Vacation date
#   Password    Password for user
#   Comment
#
# The first line in the file must remain exactly as it appears above, but
# all the remaining comments in this block can be deleted if you wish.
# The record format is not tolerant of errors. Dates must be exactly
# 12 characters in length, using 0-padding as required. White space is
# significant and preserved in all cases. The last line of this file must
# always end with a CR/LF.
#
# We recommend that you use the Mercury user interface to maintain this
# file unless you are very sure of what you 're doing.

Again, James Haley's BuildMLF makes this a lot easier.

Hi there

I use Mercury in a high school, it manages the pupils and the teachers mail addresses.

Actually I use dlists (builded via scripts) to have the feature of one mail to many recipients, the problem is that this feature does not work when a user uses our webmail.

What I'd like to do is something like that:

Via script I create a file including a bunch of email addresses (for example all the mathematics teachers), I create an alias between this list and one email address (ie mathematics@myhighschool.org) so that when a mail is sent to this address it is distributed to all the addresses of the list, I want also to prevent the users to add or remove addresses from the list (ntfs rights can do this).

Is it possible to do it and how?

TIA

That sounds a lot like using a general rule set to copy or forward messages to multiple recipients, unless it for some reason needs to be a real distribution list.

/Rolf 

I use Mercury in a high school, it manages the pupils and the teachers mail addresses.

Actually

I use dlists (builded via scripts) to have the feature of one mail to

many recipients, the problem is that this feature does not work when a

user uses our webmail.

Is there any reason you do not use Mercury mailing lists for this??

No particular reason.

I just want to prevent individual subscriptions/unsubscriptions and I want the list to be based on a text file so that I can create/modify them via  script. I want also that any user, even not a member of the list, to be able to send mails to the list.

Regards

I just want to prevent individual subscriptions/unsubscriptions and I

want the list to be based on a text file so that I can create/modify

them via  script. I want also that any user, even not a member of the

list, to be able to send mails to the list.

I use a general rule for this, as Rolf suggests. It's very simple:

I have an alias as follows:

committee@mydomain     FILTER:C:\MERCURY\committee.RUL

and committee.RUL is a text file containing:

Mercury Rule Set

Always Forward "user1@domain"
Always Forward "user2@domain"
Always Forward "user3@domain"
Always Forward "user4@domain"
Always Forward "user5@domain"

It works well, or used to. Unfortunately, a few users now use SPF, and it doesn't work between them.
The mail is forwarded with the original "From" address but from my server, so SPF flags a mismatch and the destination server rejects it. So I'm thinking of using a mailing list instead. If none of your users use SPF, the general rule is fine, and easy to set up.

Chris

Rolf, Thomas and Chris

 Thanks for your help. I'm going to try to create the .mlf files with a script, first I have to understand its content., lines like the following are pretty mysterious for me:

A    address1@domain.com    1first name    D---------------    00000000    000101000000    000101000000    000101000000    password    comment

Is there any manual who explain this?

Regards