To create a mailing list, you must first access the “Email Menu” of the control panel. Then click on the “Mailing Lists” icon. Lists will only be shown once you have clicked on “Create Mailing List”.
Enter a name for your mailing list and then click the “Create” button. You will then be taken back to the main mailing list and your new list will be visible in the list.
Note: You cannot create a mailing list if the name already exists as a POP3 account, autoresponder, or forwarder.
Subscribe / Unsubscribe from E-Mail
The server uses the popular Majordomo mailing list software. Normally, the mailing lists are run and formed solely by email. You can log in to the address list in two ways:
1. Send an email to [email protected] and type “subscribe listname” (without quotes) in the message space.
2. Send an email to [email protected] and type “subscribe” (without quotes) in the messages space.
Each list is also available in a summary. This means that messages are stored and then sent once per period (e.g. per week) in one large message. This is useful at larger lists to ensure that recipients are not overwhelmed by daily messages. To be able to register for the summary, you must follow the same procedure as register, only use:
1. “subscribe listname-digest” instead of “subscribe listname.”
2. [email protected] instead of [email protected]
The steps to unsubscribe are the same as those for signing in, only replace the word “subscribe” with “unsubscribe” in the message space. Majordomo will send you an email if the sign-up/unsubscribe is successful. In addition, you can view the sign-up list from the control panel.
Sign up / Sign out directly in the control panel
You can add or remove registrations yourself via the control panel. The recipients will not receive a confirmation message from Majordomo in this way of adding. This means that they don’t know they’re on the list until someone tells or emails the list.
The first step involves selecting the list you want to change. All mailing lists are visible from the mailing lists menu. Click the “view” link next to the list name you want to work with. You will then see a box that looks like the following:
You can add a registration by choosing “Add to listname” or “Add to listname-digest” and then clicking on “Submit”. You can unsubscribe by clicking on the checkbox(es) next to the address(es) you wish to Delete and then clicking on “Delete Selected”. All subscriptions will be added to the mailing list (via email or via the control panel) regardless of how they are subscribed.
Changing mailing list settings
The control panel provides you with a graphical interface to change the Majordomo configuration. To access it, you need to go to the mailing list and click the “view” link next to the list you want to change. At the top of the screen, you will see another link: “To change list and settings, click here.” This link will take you to the configuration menu.
The configuration menu allows you to change properties of the mailing list, including:
– List description – Settings – Login policy – Maximum length of a post – Moderators – Much more…
