2. Click on EMAIL
3. Click on NEW MAILING LIST to the Right of the New Email Option
4. Give it a name such as "newsletter" and click SUBMIT
5. Click on the new Mailing List your just created which will be listed
alone with your email accounts
6. Enter the List Owners email address. This is the address that
complaints or requests from members of the list will go to.
7. See below for a example of recommended settings. Click Submit when
Done.
8. From the email section of your control panel, next to the list you
just created:
a. Click on the icon After the word "Moderators"
to add people who are allowed to send out emails to the list.
b. Click on the icon After the word
"Subscribers" to add people to the recipients list of who will
receive the emails.
- All people one at a time and click SUBMIT or enter or
past a list of email addresses, one per line in the
Batch Subscription area and click SUBMIT
Send your message to the address you created, which is
shown on the top of the list page as MAIL LIST
If you configured your Mail List as Suggested, you will
receive an email back shortly, asking you to click
one of the links in the email. One Approved the list and
sends it out, the other Rejects it and does not send it.
Many Email and Internet providers will mark your Email as Spam and may
even put your website on a spamer
BlackList if you do not employ the practice of a disclaimed and removal
option in your email. In the top of the list page is Help, Subscribe and
UnSubscribe address for your list. You can put the Subscribe address on
your website as a simple way for people to join your list. They simply
send an email to that address and will get a confirmation to join.
"You are receiving this email because you requested to join our
mailing list or are a regular contact of our company. If you wish to be
removed from this list please send an email to newsletter-unsubscribe@abscompany.com"
Configuring
Mailing Lists
You
can configure mailing list by clicking the e-mail address in the E-mail list
on the Mail
Manager page:
Enter
the e-mail address that enables mail list subscribers to report their
problems or error messages sending requests to your_mailinglist- owner@domain.com.
Since EZMLM can
take care of virtually all requests without human intervention, the list
owner may read mail only infrequently.
By
default, all messages sent to a list are kept archived. This way,
subscribers can later retrieve messages from the archive. For instance,
subscribers haven't been following the list for a while, or they just want
to see the discussion of a specific question. E.g.: retrieve one message
at a time with the -get command: your_mailinglist-get.123@domain.com(get
message 123)
Read more on commands to access
the ezmlm message archive. * The archive is also used to create digests.
You can view mailing list archive from your Control Panel. For this, click
on the magnifying glass above the Archived option: 
This
will carry you to a web interface where you can view and search for
monthly archived messages received by your mailing list:
Check Not
Archived to
disable archiving the messages sent to the list. 
You
can prohibit the overall access to the archive and authorize only
moderators to get at it. 
Check
the Digest box
to set up the mailing list with a digest function. The digest is a special
kind of mailing list extension. Instead of sending separate messages, it
sends out a collection of messages ordered by digest subscribers
collections of messages. Digest is sent out when a predetermined time or
traffic limit has been reached. Receiving digest is very convenient for
users who want to follow a list, but not to participate in the discussion.
Digests contain each message as it was sent out by the list. No
editorials, no missing messages. If the list owner has chosen to restrict
posts and archive access to subscribers, digest subscribers are
automatically given the same privilege. From the subscriber point of view,
the digest list for the mailing list your_mailinglist@domain.com is
called your_mailinglist-
digest@domain.com. You use the same commands to work with digest as
you do when you work with the main list. The only difference is that you
use your commands with 'digest'
indication. 
Check
"No
prefix" to prohibit adding prefix to the subject line of
each message that does not already contain it. If you want the subject
line of each message that does not contain it, to include the prefix,
place the text in the file DIR/prefix
Here
you can restrict the access to the mailing list archive by allowing only
subscribers retrieve the archive. Non-subscribers' requests will be
rejected.
Usually
an applicant for subscription (your_mailinglist-subscribe@domain.com)
is sent a confirmation request. To confirm it, one should just reply to
the message. When it is done, recipient's address is added to the database
and he becomes a subscriber.
This verification mechanism tests if the person at the subscription
address really wants to be a subscriber. You can always include or exclude
confirmation from the subscription procedure. 
Normally,
confirmation is not required to unsubscribe from a mailing list. However,
this option gives added security in that one can't remove another without
permission. 
Mailing
list users are not allowed to list the addresses of all subscribers.
Still, you can allow remote administrator to get it. The subscription log
stores entries for each modification made to the subscriber database.
Remote administrators can list this log or search it for specific entries.
For example, listing this file allows the remote administrator to see
recent additions and removals. 
In
special cases, the list owner may set up the list to be message moderated.
On a message moderated list, messages, instead of going directly to the
list (to send messages to the list, one must know its name. If the list is
called mailinglist@domain.com,
just send a message to mailinglist@domain.com),
are sent to one or more moderators. They can accept or reject, but not
modify the message. If the message is accepted, it is sent to the list
unmodified. If it is rejected, it is e-mailed back to the sender,
optionally with an explanation from the moderator. On moderated lists it
may take a little longer for the message to reach all the subscribers,
since it has to be read and approved by at least one moderator before
being sent out to the subscribers.
Here,
you can allow remote administrators to edit the text files that make up
most of the ezmlm responses. Replies are sent only if the target address
is a remote administrator. With this switch, ezmlm replies to the -edit
command with a list of the files in dir/text/.
Only files where editing seems reasonable are included in the list. The
remote administrator can edit any file in dir/text/ by
sending e-mail containing the new text to -edit.file where "file'' is
the name of the file replaced (edited). In reply to this command, ezmlm
sends a message with the file and editing instructions. A "cookie''
based on the date, file name, and contents of the file is added to the
``Reply-To:'' address. The cookie becomes invalid as soon as the file has
been changed, or after 27 hours, whichever is shorter. Also, the cookie
cannot be used to edit any other file, even if the other file has exactly
the same content.
Here
you can disable posting by subscribers to the mailing list, so they will
only receive messages posted by moderators. This is usually chosen to send
announcement or notifications where the interaction between recipients is
not intended. 
If
you enable this function, users will be required to request to the remote
administrator in order to retrieve mail list archives. Otherwise, archive
will be accessible only to the remote administrator. 
With
this option enabled, it will process commands sent in the subject to
list-request@host. 
A
remote administrator is an address with the rights to do certain
administrative tasks remotely by E-mail. Depending on how the list is
configured, remote administrators may have the right/ability to list
subscribers, search for subscriber addresses by name, add and remove
subscriber addresses and/or edit the texts that are sent in reply to list
commands. 
Mailing
lists may use subscription moderation. Subscription to these lists is
identical to the subscription process in mailing lists, except that after
confirmation the request is passed on to the list moderator(s). One
becomes a subscriber only after his request has been approved by a
moderator, i.e. he replies to the "Reply-To:" address. 
You
can set up your mailing list to allow posts from subscribers only. In this
case posts received from non-subscribers will be rejected and sent back.
To
save changes, click Submit.
