Setting Up a Mailing List
To set up a mailing list:
- Go to Home > Mailing lists.
- Click the Switch On icon in the Tools group to start up the mailing list service.
- Click Add New Mailing List.
- Specify the desired name for the mailing list.
This can be, for example, a department name, a topic of the mailing list, or any other text in Latin symbols. The name should be short enough to remember. It can comprise alphanumeric, dash, dot and underscore symbols.
- Specify the password that will be used for administering the mailing list.
- Specify the mailing list administrator's e-mail.
- Leave the Notify administrator of the mailing list creation check box selected.
You will receive instructions on using and managing the mailing list at the administrator's e-mail you specified. Keep that message for your records.
- Click OK.
To configure the mailing list:
- Go to Home > Mailing lists.
- Click the icon
next to the desired mailing list's e-mail address. A login screen opens.
- Type the list administrator's password and click Let me in ….
Alternately, you can access the mailing list configuration the following way (on Linux hosting):
- In your Web browser, enter the following URL: http://lists.<your-domain.com>/mailman/admin/<listname> (where <your-domain.com> is your domain name, and <listname> is the name of the mailing list (that is, the left part of the mailing list's e-mail address before the @ sign).
A login screen opens.
- Type the list administrator's password and click Let me in ….
To post a newsletter issue or other information to the mailing list, send it by e-mail to the mailing list's e-mail address. All subscribed users will receive it.