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Mailing Lists

The NetMail® List Agent allows administrators to create and maintain mailing lists. Mailing lists are essentially public communication forums. They are used to broadcast information via e-mail. NetMail provides two kinds of mailing lists: list server Mailing Lists and NDS® Mailing Lists.

 

Mailing List Objects

A Mailing List is a compilation of user e-mail addresses. When a message is sent to the mailing list, the message is automatically forwarded to every user in the mailing list.

Typically, users subscribe to Mailing Lists. To subscribe, users send a message to the list server’s e-mail address with the word “subscribe” in the body of the message.

For more information on Mailing List objects, see Creating Mailing List Objects and Configuring Mailing List Objects.

 

List User Objects

List User objects represent the members of a Mailing List. When users subscribe to a mailing list, a List User is added to the respective Mailing List object. Administrators can also add mailing list members by creating List User objects within the Mailing List object.

For more information on List User objects, see Creating List User Objects and Configuring List User Objects.

 

NDS Mailing Lists

NDS mailing lists allow you to broadcast messages to eDirectory™ users. Unlike Mailing Lists, NDS Mailing Lists are comprised of eDirectory objects rather than user e-mail addresses. Selected eDirectory objects can include Container objects, Groups, organizational roles, aliases, and individual User objects.

NOTE: If a Container object is selected, messages are forwarded to the users within the designated Container object.

For more information on NDS Mailing List objects, see Creating Mailing List Objects and Configuring Mailing List Objects.

 

Mailing Lists Container

The Mailing Lists container is created in Internet Services during installation. This container holds all of the messaging system’s available Mailing List objects. The List Agent references the Mailing Lists container when scanning the message queue for messages addressed to mailing lists.

IMPORTANT: Every Mailing List object must be represented in the Mailing Lists container in order for the List Agent to find it. If a Mailing List object is created elsewhere in the tree, it must be represented by an Alias object in the Mailing Lists container.

If the Mailing Lists container is deleted, it can only be recreated by re-running NIMSEXT.

NOTE: For information on running the NIMSEXT utility, see the Novell® NetMail Administration Guide at http://www.novell.com/documentation.

 

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