Mailing Lists

Features include:

• Greater reliability than using multiple adressees in a regular email.
• Easily configured by you with a number of useful options.
• Addition and removal of members from the list either managed by yourself, or at your option, by list members.
• Useful as a “discussion” list, with members able to send messages to others on the list.
• Useful as a “broadcast” list, with a restricted set of senders, and where other members can't send to the list.

Technical Information

Our preferred mailing list product is “Mailman”.

mailing list names

For technical reasons list names must have two parts, a domain prefix and a suffix chosen by you. For example mydomain.com might have a list named mydomain-staff. Mail can be sent to the address mydomain-staff@mydomain.com.

mailing list aliases

We recommend that an “email alias” be created for the list name. For example the list alias staff@mydomain.com could be used for the list mydomain-staff@mydomain.com. This gives you a simpler and easier to remember mailing list name to work with.

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