Follow the process outlined below to create a Mailing List:
- Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name for which you have purchased this Email Hosting package and proceed to the Order Details view.Click here to read how >>
- Click on Manage Email Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
- In the Email Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Mailing Lists -> Add.
- Enter the Mailing List Email Address [List Name], which would be the primary Email Address for your Mailing List. When a message is sent to this address, all members of this Mailing List will receive a copy of that message.
IMPORTANT
- The Email Address specified in the Mailing List Email Address [List Name] field should not be one of the existing Email Addresses on your domain name. Specifying an existing Email Address will throw an error - This prefix already exists for this order.
- The Email Address specified in the Mailing List Email Address [List Name] field cannot have a dot (.) in the username, whereas a hyphen (-) is allowed. For example, an Email Address as mailing-list@yourdomainname.com is valid, whereas mailing.list@yourdomainname.com is invalid.
- Upon creation of this Mailing List, an Email Address will be automatically created with the value submitted in the Mailing List Email Address [List Name] field.
- Enter the Email Address that you want to employ as the Primary Moderator [List Owner]. This address is treated as the owner of the Mailing List.
- Specify the Message Moderation Preferences and Subscription Preferences.Click here to read how to specify Message Moderation Preferences >>
Click here to read how to specify Subscription Preferences >>
- You can also choose to specify some additional preferences, such as automatically blocking mails greater in size than a limit you set, add a specific message at the end of all posts, etc. To do so, click on Advanced Options, make the necessary settings and click on Save.
- Click on Submit.
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Depending upon the nature of your Mailing list, you may choose to keep subscription to the list limited, or make the list open for all. To do this, you need to specify the Subscription Preferences for your mailing list. You can allow either
- allow anyone to join the list by sending a subscription request, or
- allow people to join only with the approval of moderators.
Subscription preferences can be specified at the time of creation of the Mailing list itself. If you wish to modify these at a later time, follow the process below:
1. In the Email management interface, go to Mailing Lists -> List.
2. The following page bears a list of all Mailing lists associated with your Email Hosting package. Click on the mailing list for which you wish to add members.
3. In the details view that follows, click on Modify.
4. On this page, you can set your subscription preference towards the bottom of the form. Select the radio button against the option of your choice.
5. Click on Submit.
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