FAQs: Mailinglists
Questions and answers concerning Mailinglists:
How do I configure a new mailinglist?
You can configure your mailinglist(s) in your Domaintechnik Control Panel under the item Mailinglist Manager.
On the left side your existing mailinglists are indicated - click on the name of the list, which you would like to edit. Now you can define and/or update the characteristics of the list. If you have finished click on Save at the end of the page in order to confirm the changes.
Which kinds of mailinglists can I establish?
Your mailinglist can be defined as one of the following types: - Bulletin/Newsletter - Only the moderator can post messages to the subscribers of the list.
- Moderated private discussion group - All subscribers may post to this list. Emails sent by people not on this list will be sent to the moderator for review.
- Closed private discussion group - Only subscribers and moderators may post to the list.
- Moderated public discussion group - Anyone may post to this list, but all messages will be sent to the moderator for review.
- Unmoderated public discussion group - Anyone may post to this list; without reviewing the message is sent to all subscribers of this list.
How to subscribe to and again unsubscribe from a mailinglist?
- Subscribe:
Send an email to yourliste-subscribe@yourdomain.com (replace "yourliste" and "yourdomain.com" with your actual data). Per email only one sender may be stated. Subject and content of the email are not relevant.
The sender of this email is accepted as member of the mailinglist. If a subscriber signs up serveral times for a mailinglist however, the registration is done only once and the messages are also sent only once. If you are a manager of a mailinglist youself, you can add email addresses to or delete from the list in the Mailinglist Manager of your Server Control Panel.
You can get further information by sending an email to yourliste-help@yourdomain.com.
- Unsubscribe:
Send an email to yourliste-unsubscribe@yourdomain.com
(replace "yourliste" and "yourdomain.com" with your actual data). Per
email only one sender may be stated. Subject and content of the email
are not relevant.
The sender of this email is deleted from the mailinglist. If you are a manager of a mailinglist youself, you can add email
addresses to or delete from the list in the Mailinglist Manager of your
Server Control Panel.
How can I send messages over a mailinglist?
Simply send an email to mailinglist@yourdomain.com (replace "mailinglist" with the name of your list and "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain). - At a newsletter only the moderator can post to the list, all other emails are only forwarded to the moderator.
- At a private discussion group each subscriber can post an email to yourlist@yourdomain.com, which is then forwarded to all subscribers.
- At a moderated list all emails sent to mailinglist@yourdomain.com are forwarded to the moderator, who then has to accept these emails.
How can I read archived messages?
By default all messages are stored in the archive. Depending on the configuration of the mailinglist you can retrieve archived messages and/or read them in the web.
A list with commands for retrieving the archive can be found in the Mailinglist Manager under the link General Application (Archive inquiries). |