- Sign into your Administration Center out at
yourdomain.com/menu and click on "Mail Manager"
- Click on "New List"
- Give your mailing list a name
- It will give you these instructions:
To subscribe to the mailinglist, simply send a message with the
word "subscribe" in the Subject: field to the -request
address of that list.
To: listname-request@yourdomain.com
Subject: subscribe
To subscribe the digest, simply send a message with the word
"subscribe"
in the Subject: field to the following address.
To: listname-d-request@yourdomain.com
Subject: subscribe
To send email to the mailinglist, write to the following
address:
To: listname@yourdomain.com
To unsubscribe from the mailinglist, simply send a message with
the word "unsubscribe" in the Subject: field to the
-request address of that list.
To: listname-request@yourdomain.com
Subject: unsubscribe
To unsubscribe from the digest, write a email like this.
To: listname-d-request@yourdomain.com
Subject: unsubscribe
- Click on the "Home" link so that it
will l ist your email addresses and mailing lists
- Click on the link that is the name of the list
you just created
- Type in the maintainers email address and the
password you want to use to protect it.
- Then it will tell you something like this:
Now, modify '/home/username/yourdomain-mail/listname/rc.custom'
file...
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- After setting up your list and you get that
message to edit the file, click on the "Administration
Suite" link near the top of the screen
- Click on the File Manager icon
- Click on the yourdomain-mail link
- Click on the link that is the name of your list
(not the one with the -d after it, though)
- Click on the rc.custom link to open it up so
that you can edit it in the next window. (hint: you can resize that
window at the bottom of the screen)
- If you need to choose some of the options, it
asks that you "uncomment" something. That means to take
the # symbol from in front of it. Just delete it.
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Newsletter: Only the maintainer can send out
anything to the list
Moderated: all messages have to be approved before they are sent to the
list
Subscriber Only: any subscriber can send messages to the list
If you need more help, here are a few links to
some help pages:
The FAQ is at http://www.mindwell.com/smartlist/
The SmartList archive:
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~casterln/smartlist-arc/maillist.html
SmartList Usage Instructions - http://www.3pp.com/smart3.html
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We have found a couple of alternatives to
smartlist that is really nice if you are having trouble with the
SmartList mailing list program.
Visit http://www.cgiscriptcenter.com/
and then choose Subscribe Me from the drop down list at the bottom
of the page. There is a free version of this and a more
customizable paid version. Subscribe Me Pro (the paid version) is very
nice and what we use to send out our newsletters.
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http://www.interactive-web.net/freeware/mailman.html
It's a nice program that is free. It handles
multiple mailing lists and each list can handle up to 1000 subscribers.
The really neat thing about this program is that you don't have to
install it! They have a form on their page where you download it
that you can fill out with your ftp information and it will install it
for you! Make sure that you go out to your site and create a directory
for it to install to. I would call it "list". Then for
the directory, give them /yourdomain-www/list (where you put in your
domain name where I have "yourdomain") and something like
/yourdomain-www/list/images for the images directory. The rest of
the information is your domain name and ftp username and password and it
will install for you.
Note: we can't offer support on any of the mailing
lists on this page. The one in the control panel (smartlist) seems to
have problems of it's own and if you can't get it to work in a
reasonable amount of time, I would suggest that you use the one that I
have mentioned above.
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http://www.bignosebird.com/carchive/nomodomo.shtml
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