Mailing Lists

Mailing lists derived from class membership of a course

Documented in detail on the CSE FAQ Taggi Virtual Aliases

• 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

To see who is on the mailing list,

• % mlalias COMP9999_student-list (DEPRECATED)

• % acc COMP9999_student/

• % members COMP9999_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

Too early before the current session, the mailing list could include last session's students. Too late after the current session, the students could be dropped from the list.

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 -s `grep COMP1911 ~sms/sturec/data/12s2_COMP | cut -f2 -d'|' | priv upi -u | cut -f2 -d' '

Remember to remove the mailing lists so as not to clogged up the mail alias database.