Mailing Lists

To create a mailing list:

  1. Open your web hosting Control Panel’s Mailing List section.

  2. Enter the name of the list in the “Create New Mailing List:” field.

  3. Click on the “Add” button

 

Creating mailing list

 

Once your mailing list is created, several management options will appear in the form of links: Config, Subscribers, Allowed, Digest, Moderators, Blacklist, Delete.

 

Mailing list options

The list configuration settings are available through the Config link. You can get an explanation what a particular setting does, by clicking on the ? link next to it.

The Subscribers link will let you manually add subscribers to your mailing list. Subscriber addresses can only be added one at a time.

The Allowed link can be used to add allowed posters. The Allowed posters list is a special list. It contains addresses which are not subscribers or moderators. They can send messages to the list and will receive a message back to confirm their post.

Digest allows you to access the list digests if they have been enabled from the Config page.

The Moderators option is used to add and remove list moderators.

To blacklist certain addresses, preventing them from posting to the list, you can use the Blacklist option.

To delete the mailing list, please use the Delete link.

Importing a list of the subscribers of a mailing list is not possible.

It is possible to get a list of your subscribers’ addresses. You can have the mailing list software send it to you in an email message. To do this, you need to do the following:

  1. Make sure that the options “Remote administration” and “Remote administrators can list subscribers” are checked on the Config page of the mailing list in question. This page is accessible from the Mailing List section of the Control Panel.

  2. Add your email address as a moderator of the list.

  3. Send a message to mailinglistname-list@example.com and the mailing list software will send you a message with the list of subscribers. You will need to substitute ‘mailinglistname’ with the actual name of your mailing list, and example.com with your domain name.

To edit the administrative messages of the EZMLM mailing list (e.g the subscription email), you need to:

  1. Have the following configuration options for your mailing list checked (at the Control Panel -> Mailing list -> Config):

    • Remote administration

    • Remote administrators can edit texts

  2. Add your email address as a moderator of the mailing list

  3. Send a message to mailinglist-edit@example.com (substitute mailinglist with your actual mailing list name, and example.com with your domain name).

The mailing list software will reply to you with a message that lists the editable files and instructions on how to edit them.