Alphabetical Keyword Reference
Please see the full documentation of each keyword for platform availability.
Keywords not hyperlinked are obscure, undocumented z/VM-only settings. If you are a z/VM site and need help with these settings, please contact L-Soft customer support.
If the "Introduced" column is blank, the keyword existed prior to LISTSERV 1.8d (13).
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14.0 |
Specifies non-POSTMASTER users who are allowed to post to the ALL-REQUEST alias. |
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14.0 |
Turns LISTSERV's real-time anti-virus scanning on or off. |
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14.4 |
One of two variables that may be set on servers that submit mail to the external LISTSERV AVS for virus and spam scanning, which can help deal with DoS mail-bombing attacks. |
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14.4 |
One of two variables that may be set on servers that submit mail to the external LISTSERV AVS for virus and spam scanning, which can help deal with DoS mail-bombing attacks. |
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Defines the hostname of a machine that knows how to route mail to BITNET addresses |
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1.8d (13) |
Tells LISTSERV where to send bounces not related to any particular list |
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14.0 |
Tells LISTSERV to mirror a copy of all or selected changelogs to DBMS. |
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14.0 |
Used in conjunction with CHANGELOG_DBMS. Sets the DBMS connection characteristics for mirroring changelog data to DBMS. |
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14.0 |
Used in conjunction with CHANGELOG_DBMS. Sets the DBMS table characteristics for mirroring changelog data to DBMS. |
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List of library minidisks to be checked at startup |
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14.0 |
Three configuration variables prefixed by CLI_* are available for use with DBMS/Mail Merge. |
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1.8c (12) |
Defines the hostname used by the LCMD utility |
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The name of the CMS system to be used on IPL commands |
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1.8c (12) |
Where to send Windows crash reports |
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The password required to create new lists |
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Indicates whether the (old) z/VM database functions are enabled or not |
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1.8d (13) |
Several configuration variables prefixed by DBMS_* are available for use with DBMS/Mail Merge. |
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1.8c (12) |
Determines whether or not the new LISTSERV database functions use reverse indexing |
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14.3 |
Debug setting to display passwords in LISTSERV's log file |
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14.3 |
Show fully-logged TCPGUI commands for debugging purposes. |
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14.0 |
Sets a default period for rotating change-logs. |
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15.0 |
Boolean value that sets the server default for background DISTRIBUTE |
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1.8d (13) |
Sets the default national language template for use by all lists on the server |
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14.5 |
Sets the server default for the list-level Loopcheck keyword |
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16.0 |
Sets the default for the Mail-Merge= keyword for all lists on the server. |
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14.5 |
Sets the server default for the list-level Misc-Options keyword |
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1.8d (13) |
Sets defaults for passive probing |
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1.8b (11) |
Provides a default value for the "SPLIT=" command line keyword |
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The delay between two reader-scan operations |
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Indicates whether LISTSERV should use diagnose X'D4' to mimic the RSCS origin on files it DISTRIBUTEs |
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1.8d (13) |
Space-separated list of non-POSTMASTER users who are to be allowed to use DISTRIBUTE |
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15.0 |
Tuning parameter for background DISTRIBUTE. |
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15.0 |
Tuning parameter for background DISTRIBUTE. |
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14.4 |
Enables and tunes DISTRIBUTE "workers". This is a tuning feature for embedded mail merge. |
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15.0 |
The minimum message size, in kilobytes, to make use of DISTRIBUTE workers |
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14.4 |
Enables and tunes DISTRIBUTE "workers". This is a tuning feature for embedded mail merge. |
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1.8d-2000b (13.2) |
Determines whether or not list owners may use the mail-merge feature for their lists. |
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1.8d (13) |
Boolean value which controls security validation feature for the DISTRIBUTE command. WARNING: See the full documentation before changing this value. |
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14.5 |
Specifies DomainKeys domains for which you are able and willing to sign |
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14.5 |
Boolean value which directs LISTSERV to sign all messages for which it has a suitable DomainKeys private key. |
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16.5-2018a |
List of domains and subdomains which should never be rewritten by the DMARC address rewriting function. |
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16.5 |
(HPO) Sets the maximum DQL query size that will be cached, in KB. |
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16.5 |
(HPO) Sets the TTL of DQL cache entries, in seconds. |
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14.4 |
Boolean value which determines whether or not LISTSERV may use a standard SMTP mailer to send mail-merge messages. |
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The filemode of the DEFAULT disk to be used for storing files via a PUT command |
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The maximum number of lines for any incoming non-mail file to be accepted |
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1.8d (13) |
Defines users or classes of users who should be exempt from LISTSERV's standard filter |
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1.8b (12) |
Defines users or classes of users who should not be allowed to post to any list on the server. |
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Defines the number of seconds LISTSERV will try to open a file locked by an external process |
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Defines (in kilobytes) the "target size" for LISTSERV's file cache. |
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Defines (in kilobytes) the threshold at which point LISTSERV should start aggressively trimming the cache. |
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Defines (in kilobytes) the cache size at which LISTSERV should write a warning to the console log. |
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14.4 |
Add anti-virus protection for those Windows sites that for policy or other reasons must run anti-virus systems other than F-Secure on their servers. |
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Internet addresses of persons to be granted an "infinite" GET quota |
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14.3 |
Determines whether or not error tracebacks are shown to non-postmasters. |
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(z/VM only) A list of userid@nodes whose messages and files are to be ignored |
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14.1 |
Provided for DBMS lists with UEMAIL fields to work around RFC821 requirement that an email address local-part must be evaluated case-sensitively. |
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1.8d (13) |
Boolean value determining whether or not LISTSERV will ignore the PRIME setting on incoming DISTRIBUTE jobs. |
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1.8c (12) |
On z/VM, determines whether INDEX subscriptions use GETPOST or old-style database jobs by default. |
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The optional local "installation password" associated with the INSTALL command |
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1.8d (13) |
Boolean value determining whether or not the "Summary of resource utilization" is generated or suppressed in a CJLI JOB command response. |
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15.5 |
Seven configuration variables prefixed by LDAP_* are available for configuring LDAP support. |
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Toggles license warnings on and off. WARNING: See the full documentation before changing this value. |
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Default value for the "List-Address=" keyword |
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1.8a (10) |
Filenames of executable files that can be defined as exits by an "Exit=" list header keyword |
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Boolean variable indicating how PUT commands for datafiles associated with the LMC FAC are handled |
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A list of nodes to be associated with the hardcoded LCL FAC. Also used as the default for the "Local=" list keyword |
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16.0-2014a |
Space-separated list of users who are allowed to login as any other user, without knowing that other user’s password. Intended for SSO support via X-LOGIN AS . |
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16.0-2014a |
Boolean variable indicating whether or not a POSTMASTER may be used as a LOGIN_AS_ALLOWED_USERS target. |
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Internet address of the local mailer |
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The maximum number of lines for an incoming MAIL file to be accepted |
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Maximum number of 'RCPT TO:' lines per BSMTP file sent to the mailer |
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14.3 |
The maximum number of lists to which consecutive subscription attempts will be accepted from a given subscriber, to prevent "spoofing" attacks. |
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(HPO only) The maximum number of recipients to be listed in the LISTSERV console log as recipients of an SMTP job |
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Maximum number of recipients in forwarded DISTRIBUTE jobs |
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MAXGET |
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Maximum number of GET requests a user can make per day |
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MAXGETK |
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Maximum number of kilobytes of data a user may obtain a day via GET requests. |
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Information about library minidisks |
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Userid of the virtual machine running a RFC1312/MSP server, if "Internet TELL" support is desired |
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The list of domain names which are equivalent to NODE--e.g., MX addresses, CNAMEs, etc. |
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Short organization name that appears in the RFC-822 "Sender:" line. |
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NDMAIL |
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Whether to send mail to the local MAILER in Netdata format |
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Internet address of this LISTSERV host |
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1.8d (13) |
Three configuration variables prefixed by OCI_* are available for use with DBMS/Mail Merge. |
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1.8d (13) |
Three configuration variables prefixed by ODBC_* are available for use with DBMS/Mail Merge. |
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OFFLINETHR |
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Defines the system and RSCS spool thresholds for automatic offline/online control |
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17.0 |
Determines at what level LISTSERV indexes lists |
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14.3 |
Controls the "verboseness" of LISTSERV's administrative From: line. |
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A list of userid@nodes, of which the first one is the "main" postmaster (to receive transferred files). |
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Defines the "prime time" for your node |
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1.8b (11) |
Defines domain to be appended to all non-qualified addresses |
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17.5 |
Four variables which set rate limits for certain types of operations performed via the LISTSERV web interface. |
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Defines a list of filemodes which are to be considered as "reserved" and never available for dynamic ACCESS |
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RSCS |
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A list of local userids which must be treated as RSCS virtual machines |
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15.5 |
Sets site-level default of maximum and (optionally) minimum number of words for implicitly-generated RSS abstracts. |
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The mode (NETWORKED, STANDALONE, or TABLELESS) that LISTSERV runs in. |
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1.8d (13) |
Determines whether or not the non-z/VM SEARCH command is enabled. |
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It is possible (but not recommended) to set non-default directory paths for LISTSERV files by using the .SD parameter. |
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16.5 |
(HPO) Space-separated list of list names for which search-related files should be preloaded |
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15.5 |
Boolean value determining whether or not personal LISTSERV passwords are encrypted in the SIGNUP files. Turned ON by default starting with 15.5. |
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1.8b (11) |
The Internet hostname of the server to which all outgoing SMTP mail should be forwarded for delivery |
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1.8b (11) |
Defines n number of "SMTP workers" used to split up the SMTP forwarding load |
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(Windows) Dotted-decimal IP address which sets the IP address to which the SMTPL.EXE "listener" will bind at boot time. |
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(Windows) Integer value which sets the port number to which the SMTPL.EXE "listener" will bind at boot time |
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15.0 |
(HPO non-z/VM only) Defines bandwidth limits for the server. Typically used with delivery pools, but can be used to set a server-wide bandwidth limit. |
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1.8b (11) |
Directs LISTSERV to reset open SMTP connections every n minutes |
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16.0 |
Configuration variable for SMTPL-level spam checking. |
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16.0 |
Configuration variable for SMTPL-level spam checking. |
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16.0 |
Configuration variable for SMTPL-level spam checking. |
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1.8c (12) |
Determines whether or not to sort recipients in the RFC821 mail envelope |
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14.2 |
Determines whether or not spam reports are sent to the postmaster |
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1.8c (12) |
Sets the server-wide value (in minutes) for the anti-spam quarantine period |
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14.3 |
Sets the name of the user-provided exit program used to call a third-party spam scanner. |
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16.0 |
Determines the action(s) to take when LISTSERV receives spam complaints via AOL feedback loops |
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15.5 |
Determines whether to enable AOL Feedback Loop Auto-Processing. |
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14.3 |
Sets the maximum size, in kilobytes, of any message to be handled by the spam scanner. Messages over the specified size are not scanned. |
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14.3 |
How to set up spam blacklists and whitelists (14.3) |
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SSI |
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Flag telling LISTSERV that it runs in a SSI system |
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STARTMSG |
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Recipients of start and stop messages |
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16.0-2017a |
Determines how often (in days) LISTSERV runs its spool cleanup routine |
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The password to be used by postmasters when executing CP/CMS commands and when storing files in the server by means of the PUTC command |
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1.8d-2000b (13.2) |
Enables a system-level changelog |
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Defines the IP address used by the TCPGUI interface |
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Defines the port number used by the TCPGUI interface |
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17.5 |
Sets the public (external) IP address for the LISTSERV web interface when running on a cloud service (e.g., Microsoft Azure) where the virtual machine's internal address is mapped to an external address. |
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List of userid@node templates from whom LISTSERV should never accept mail |
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List of userid@node templates to whom LISTSERV should never send mail |
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14.3 |
(HPO only) Enables a suite of HPO functions that can markedly speed up operations on servers with many lists (>100). |
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14.5 |
Three configuration variables prefixed by UODBC_* are available for use with DBMS/Mail Merge. |
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Determines whether or not LISTSERV will use LSMTP's mail-merge functions for enhanced performance (requires LSMTP Classic version 1.1b or higher). OBSOLETE as of 14.5, see EMBEDDED_MAIL_MERGE instead. |
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VM30091 |
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Indicates whether or not the VM30091 message suppression functions are available |
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15.0 |
Boolean value determining the format of the response to the QUERY FILE command. |
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16.5 |
Boolean value determining whether LISTSERV favors login cookies containing plain-text passwords or not. (Default is 0, i.e., "not"). |
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1.8c (12) |
Indicates whether or not LISTSERV should require "OK" confirmation for commands sent from WWW browsers. |
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17.5 |
A unique site key for one of the three supported CAPTCHA solutions: Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, or Google reCAPTCHA. |
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17.0 |
Determines whether the site, and by extension, individual lists, may continue to operate in legacy 16.5 "compatibility mode" |
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1.8c (12) |
The (preferably) relative URL that leads to the WWW archive CGI script. (This is a URL, not an OS path name.) |
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1.8c (12) |
The full OS path name to the WWW archive directory |
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1.8d (13) |
Disable/enable the web archive interface's IP address verification function |
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17.5 |
A secret LISTSERV Captcha Badge to use alone, or with commercial CAPTCHA solutions. |
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17.5 |
A string telling LISTSERV which CAPTCHA vendor is in use. |
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17.5 |
Sets the SameSite attribute for LISTSERV login cookies |
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16.5 |
Long integer value telling WA whether or not to output the "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age" http header. |
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16.5 |
Boolean value which, when enabled, allows creation of "roaming" one-time passwords for the web interface which are not tied to IP addresses. |
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15.5 |
Disable/enable subscriber counts in the main web archive index page of the server. |
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Userid of the virtual machine to which files found in the lists readers should be transferred |