Mailing ListsMailing Lists| Usage of the Package | One of the most important
functions of this program is the capability to provide
mailing lists service. In this edition, you're allow to
create multiple mailing list, this is quite sufficient
for most people.
To see all the mailing lists, please expand the sub-tree in "Mailing Lists", all the mailing lists of the mail server are listed in right panel. The sub-nodes of "Mailing Lists" represent each mailing list titles. The following example uses the name "listserv" as the name of the new mailing list to be created. To add a new list, just click "Operations|Add" and the following dialog box will be shown.
In the first field, please enter the account name of mailing list. This example uses "listserv" as the name of the mailing list. "Distribution Password" is a very important and special field, it relates to the way of distributing messages to members of the mailing list. |
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| Private Channel | In the previous picture, the "Distribution Password" is "secret". If we're going to distribute a message to all members of "listserv", just send your message to "secret@host" where host is the address of your mail server ( or virtual doamin ). | |
| Public Channel | If "Distribution Password" is a blank field or the same as its title, it is called a public channel, i.e., any messages sent to this mailing list will be re-distributed to all the members of the list. | |
| How to Become a Member of the Title | It is easy for everyone to be a member of the mailing list. All they have to do is send mail to "listserv@host" with "subscribe" or "sub" in the "subject" field of the mail. If they want to quit, just send a mail to the same place with "unsubscribe" or "unsub" in "subject" field. If the mail server accepted his request, he will receive a reply mail. | |
| Deny
subscribe/ unsubscribe |
If you don't want to allow memebers to join or leave the list freely, don't check the option "Allow all people to subscribe", or "Allow all people to unsubscribe", MsgCore will ignore messages came with "sub", "subscribe", "unsubscribe" or "unsub" in "Subject" field. | |
| Related Documents | MsgCore will send a line
of message to whom subscribe or unsubscibe the title by
default. You can alter the default messages by setting
"releated documents" fields. Please set the
name of the documents to send when someone subscribe or
unsubscribe the title. Next time when someone
subscribe/unsubscribe the title, MsgCore will send
specified documents instead of default messages, however,
if MsgCore cannot find specfied docuemnts, it sends
default messages instead of specfied ones. For more information about "documents", please refer to "Document Manager" section.
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| Import from File | If you want to add a huge
amount of members to the mailing list, you can prepare a
text file with all email address and ask MailCenter to
add those email address from file to the mailing list.
The format of the text file might look like this:
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