To create an email list

1. Select the Email List tab from the Post Office Manager. You will see a list of current email lists.
2. To create a new list, select Create new Mailing List . A configuration screen will load allowing you to create the list .
3. Type the name of the email list at the List Name text entry box.
4. Modify the following fields:
   • To : This field allows you to modify what users will see in the To: field of any letter sent to the Email List. Usually you will want to leave this field blank. One possible use of this field is to include a common sense description of the email list. For example, if you create an email list address, friends, you may wish to put the following value in the To field: The Friend Email List< friends@yourecompany.com >. The bracketed information will now be included in the To: header so that users reading this message will understand that it was sent to an email list before it got to them.
   • From : Due to a bug in the Post Office Manager, the From field is currently disabled for mailing lists. Any value entered into this field will be ignored by the system.
   • Subject : The Subject field allows you to pre-fill the original mail subject with words or characters of your own choosing, so that when your subscribers get email from your mailing list, they will be able to tell immediately from the subject that this letter is from a mailing list. One convention is to use a bracketed one or two word phrase to indicate a mailing list. For example, you might put: [Friend List] in the Subject: box. The result: any message sent to the mailing list called Hi there! will show [Friend List] Hi there! in the Subject field.
   • User List : Enter the email addresses of all your subscribers, one per line, in this space.
5. Click Save and the list will be created.

The list name is similar to a dummy user name. To send an email to everyone on the list you would just send an email to "list_name@yourdomain.com".

The subject line of any email sent to the list will be added to the text in the Subject field. For example, if you send an email to the list with the subject "Test Message" and the Subject field contained the text "Test Mailing List" then the subscribers would receive an email with the subject line of " Test Mailing List Test Message".

The user list field does not refer to the pop account users for this domain but may in fact include any valid email address. This is actually the subscriber list.

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