Creating a Mailing List
Mailing lists distribute a single mail message to multiple recipients. After you create a mailing list, mail sent to the list’s address is sent to all subscribers. Mailing lists have list administrators who can change list membership and list features.
Lists can be
Note: Mailing lists cannot be renamed or corrected after creation. This is a limitation of Mailman, the list software used by Mac OS X Server. Although you can change the case of a list name using Mailman’s web interface, Server Admin doesn’t allow changing the list name in any way.
To rename or correct a list name, you must create a list and add existing users to the new list. This results in a Welcome message being sent to all listed users.
To create a list:
1In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
2Click Settings.
3Select the Mailing Lists tab.
4Click the Add (+) button under the Lists pane.
5Enter the list’s name.
The list name is the mail account name that mailing list users will send their mail to. The name isn’t case sensitive, and cannot contain spaces.
6Enter the list administrator’s mail address, then click Edit.
If you only enter a name, it must be a username on the server. If you enter username@domain, the administrator doesn’t need to be a local user.
7Click Users May Self Subscribe, if desired.
8Choose the default language for the list.
You can choose English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, or Spanish.
This setting encodes the text generated by the list for the default language.
9Choose additional languages you want to be supported by the list.
This setting also encodes the text generated by the list for the default language.
10Click OK.
11Click Save.
You can now add subscribers to the list. See “Maximum Number of Mail Messages Per Volume” on page 81.
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