Mailing Lists

Mailing lists derived from class membership of a course

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Virtual Aliases

Due to 3+ terms, student memberships extend to end of week 2 of next term, hence overlapping with next term's student memberships.

• COMP9999_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999_student UDB class

• COMP9999_tutor-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999_tutor UDB class

• COMP9999-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999 UDB class, includes tutors, lecturers, supervisors

You can now add t0, t1, t2, t3 to COMP9999 to email students of a particular term.

• COMP9999t1_student-list@cse.unsw.edu.au generated from COMP9999t1_student UDB class

To see who is on the mailing list,

• % acc COMP9999t1_student/

• % members COMP9999t1_student

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

• % man mlalias

• Examples
  • To create a tutor mailing list,

    % ssh cs1911@localhost
    % mlalias -C cs1911.12s2.tutors -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors" (DEPRECATED - options must come after the mlalias name)
    % mlalias cs1911.12s2.tutors -C -c "12s2 COMP1911 tutors"
    % mlalias cs1911.12s2.tutors -a meicheng meichengwhale@gmail.com 

  • To create a student mailing list,

    mlalias cs1911.12s2.students -C \
     -s `grep COMP1911 ~sms/sturec/data/12s2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | sed -e 's/^/z/' | tr '\n' ','`

Remember to remove the mailing lists so as not to clog up the database.