List Admin Overview

The List Administrator menu lets you control all of the functions for a single mailing list. You can change the mailing list settings, add, remove and edit members, create subsets, review moderated messages and view the log. All the things you can do are listed in the List Administrator Main Menu.

* You can edit your mailing list settings. ListManager provides many features and options with mailing lists. This screen affects such things as whether your list is moderated, private or open to the public. You can also define whether this mailing list is a discussion forum or a one-direction "announcements" list.

* You can manage the members of your mailing list. You can add, delete or edit members of your list. This is also where you define who are the List Administrators for your mailing list.

* You can create, edit or delete subsets, so you can send to just a portion of your list that meets your specifications.

* You can send a message to your list, a subset, or several lists at once. You can create a message that's in plain text, HTML, or combined so that those who can receive HTML see it, but those who can't read HTML can see the plain text message. You can also purge recipients of previous messages from receiving the current message, or specify how many recipients out of the total possible the message should be sent to.

* If you made your mailing list moderated (submissions require approval), you would approve or reject those moderated messages.

* The documents choice lets you create text documents for use inside ListManager. For example, you can define the contact information for your technical support department and reference it every time it's appropriate (for each mailing list, for instance). You can also have multiple language version of the same document--ListManager will display the right one.

* Action phrases tell ListManager to look for certain words and respond by mailing the document you specify. For instance, you may want to prohibit swearing. Also, you can set up a "document robot" which responds to certain phrases (such as "sales info" or "price list") by sending back the appropriate document.

* You can create auto-responders with ListManager. An auto-responder is an email address that always responds by sending a document. For instance, set up a "prices@yourcompany.com" auto-responder that sends out price list to anyone who emails to it.

* You can look at incoming or outgoing mail. See "Incoming Mail" and "Outgoing Mail".