<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="mailman-member.css" type='text/css' /> <link rel="first" href="mailman-member.html" title='GNU mailman - list Member Manual' /> <link rel='contents' href='contents.html' title="Contents" /> <link rel='last' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel='help' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel="prev" href="node31.html" /> <link rel="parent" href="node29.html" /> <link rel="next" href="node33.html" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name='aesop' content='information' /> <title>9.3 How do I get or avoid getting messages with no topic set? </title> </head> <body> <div class="navigation"> <div id='top-navigation-panel' xml:id='top-navigation-panel'> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="9.2 how do I" href="node31.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="9 mailing list topics" href="node29.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="10 setting other options" href="node33.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - List Member Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="node31.html">9.2 How do I</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="node29.html">9 Mailing list topics</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node33.html">10 Setting other options</a> </div> <hr /></div> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <h2><a name="SECTION002930000000000000000"></a><a name="sec:notopic"></a> <br> 9.3 How do I get or avoid getting messages with no topic set? </h2> If you wish to get all messages sent to the list, make sure you are not subscribed to any specific topic. (See Section <a href="node31.html#sec:sometopic">9.2</a>.) <p> If you are only subscribed to some topics, you can either choose to either receive or not receive messages with no topic set, much the way you can choose to subscribe only to certain topics. <p> To change this setting, <ol> <li>Log in to your member options page. (See Section <a href="node9.html#sec:web">3.1</a> for more details on how to do this.) </li> <li>Look for the section marked "Do you want to receive message that do not match any topic filter?" <p> If you wish to receive messages with no topic set, select "Yes." If you do not wish to receive such messages, choose "No." </li> </ol> <p> This setting has no effect if you are not subscribed to any topics. <p> <div class="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'> <p></p><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="9.2 how do I" href="node31.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="9 mailing list topics" href="node29.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="10 setting other options" href="node33.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - List Member Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="node31.html">9.2 How do I</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="node29.html">9 Mailing list topics</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node33.html">10 Setting other options</a> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 14, 2009.</span> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </body> </html>