See the sample config file for password definition. List owners are individuals responsible for list administration via mail requests. Thus, list owners may be remotely located. Each list has to have at least one list owner. In addition, they may moderate their lists, and they receive various error messages pertaining to their lists.
All administrative requests are author authenticated and password protected.
Whenever a message cannot be author authenticated, the list's owner and manager are notified. These options are described in the following sections. These preferences are listed in the owners file on the line his address and list are defined. Owner preferences are optional. The manager may define preferences for himself as well by using the keyword server in place of a list alias.