Sending Mail to Groups
Depending on the type of account you have, Cyrus or Exchange, different methods of sending mail to groups are available; details of each are included below.
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- readers can join or cancel their "membership" to the list
- provides a method of easily communicating with any group of people (as few as a dozen or as many as hundreds) who share a common interest
- maintains the email addresses of the group
- mailing lists are managed by list owners
- list owners are responsible for configuring and maintaining the list
Cyrus and Exchange: MassMail
- used to send individual mail messages to greater than one hundred users. This is in contrast to dlists (described below) which are used to send mail to smaller groups used in conjuction with mail merge programs to generate formatted mass mailings to groups of users
- used for sporadic or one time mailings, ideally to groups less than 100 users
- created by placing a list of mail recipients in a file called "distribution list"
- readers cannot join or cancel from the list themselves
Last Updated: 1/26/12
