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Chapter 2 Mail Service Setup 45
Creating a Mailing List
Mailing lists distribute a single mail message to multiple recipients. After you create a
mailing list, mail sent to the list’s address is sent to all subscribers. Mailing lists have list
administrators who can change list membership and list features.
Lists can be self-subscribing, so list administrators don’t need to add and remove
subscribers. The subscribers can do so themselves.
Note: Mailing lists cannot be renamed or corrected after creation. This is a limitation of
Mailman, the list software used by Mac OS X Server. Although you can change the case
of a list name using Mailman’s web interface, Server Admin doesn’t allow changing the
list name in any way.
To rename or correct a list name, you must create a list and add existing users to the
new list. This results in a Welcome message being sent to all listed users.
To create a list:
1 In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.
2 Click Settings.
3 Select the Mailing Lists tab.
4 Click the Add (+) button under the Lists pane.
5 Enter the list’s name.
The list name is the mail account name that mailing list users will send their mail to.
The name isn’t case sensitive, and cannot contain spaces.
6 Enter the list administrator’s mail address, then click Edit.
If you only enter a name, it must be a username on the server. If you enter
username@domain, the administrator doesn’t need to be a local user.
7 Click Users May Self Subscribe, if desired.
8 Choose the default language for the list.
You can choose English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, or Spanish.
This setting encodes the text generated by the list for the default language.
9 Choose additional languages you want to be supported by the list.
This setting also encodes the text generated by the list for the default language.
10 Click OK.
11 Click Save.
You can now add subscribers to the list. See “Maximum Number of Mail Messages Per
Volume” on page 81.
If you allow users to self-subscribe, they can subscribe using mail or the web
administration page.