Thread: Cannot digest subscribe

Hi all,

I just signed up for the mailing list, but when I tried to change
over to a digest subscription, I got an error back from the server.
The instructions I followed were from http://archives.postgresql.org/
pgsql-general/ .

 From the few e-mails I've gotten so far, it looks like this is a
nice community!

Thanks,

     Don

Begin forwarded message:

> From: majordomo-owner@postgresql.org
> Date: March 4, 2007 9:28:30 AM EST
> To: Don Lavelle <don.lavelle.bulk@gmail.com>
> Subject: Majordomo results
> Reply-To: majordomo@postgresql.org
>
>
>>>>> subscribe-digest pgsql-general
> **** The subscribe command did not succeed.
> ****
> **** The command mode "digest" is invalid.  The following command
> **** modes, separated by hyphens ('-') or equals signs ('=') are
> valid:
> ****   noinform
> ****   nolog
> ****   nomessage
> ****   nowelcome
> ****   quiet
> ****   rule
> ****   set
> ****   welcome
>
> Valid commands processed: 1
> 0 succeeded, 0 stalled, and 1 failed.
>
>
> Use the following command:
>   sessioninfo aacb79d2f88ad99a727d23a2ec10a3bcef7c9882
> to see technical information about this session.
>

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> I just signed up for the mailing list, but when I tried to change
> over to a digest subscription, I got an error back from the server.
> The instructions I followed were from http://archives.postgresql.org/
> pgsql-general/ .

It looks like the directions on that page are incorrect - I'll see about
getting them fixed. I've set your subscription to digest manually. For
the record, the correct command to subscribe in digest mode is:

subscribe-set pgsql-general digest


Thanks for letting us know about the problem.

- --
Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200703042038
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8

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Don Lavelle <don.lavelle.bulk@gmail.com> writes:
> I just signed up for the mailing list, but when I tried to change
> over to a digest subscription, I got an error back from the server.

I'm fairly sure that the way you do that involves some kind of "set mode"
command, not a new "subscribe" command.  Send the command "help" to
the majordomo server and believe what it tells you, not what you
read somewhere else.  (Just to save you one round trip, I recall that
"help" and "help set" will cover most of what you want to know.)

            regards, tom lane