Utilities: Administration: Sites: New Site: Essentials

The Edit Site pages are identical to the New Site pages.

Name

A single word (without spaces) which identifies the site. For convenience, a shorter name is better. You can use the underscore or dash characters to represent spaces, such as "yourcompany_group".

Description

A short set of words describing your site. For example "Your Company Software Ltd.". This is the text users will see in places where your site description is given.

Internet Host Name

The machine name that you want ListManager to use for this site. For example, if ListManager is running on a machine called "minerva", you would enter that machine name here, minerva.acme.com.

The Internet Host Name is the machine name ListManager uses as the Reply-To: and From: when it is sending out mail. It is vital that you enter a valid Internet host name. If you enter an invalid Internet host name, mail will go out with that name and people replying to it will never be able to send mail back to ListManager. For example, if you entered "ophelia.acme.com" as the host name, but this was another machine, then outgoing mail would say yourlist@ophelia.acme.com, and this would not be correct.

There are other alternatives.

If the machine running ListManager responds to several machine names, you will want to enter the appropriate machine name for this Site. For example, if two companies are sharing this server, Acme Corporation, and Widget Corporation, this host name will tell ListManager which name to use in what situation. If someone writes to a mailing list run by Widget Corporation, ListManager will respond with the Widget Corporation host name (minerva.widget.com, let's say). If someone else writes to a mailing lists run by the Acme Corporation, ListManager will respond with the Acme Corporation host name (minvera.acme.com, let's say).

Also, though ListManager might be running on a machine called "minerva.acme.com", you might want outgoing mail to look like it is coming from "acme.com". If so, you would enter "acme.com" as the host name. Note: People will be sending mail to addresses at acme.com, and it is your responsibility to set up mail forwarding on your email system so that mail sent to acme.com (for ListManager or its mailing lists) gets forwarded to ListManager running on minerva.acme.com.

Discuss with your server administrator what internet host name(s) are available to you, and how you can set up additional host names.

URL to Web Interface

By default, the host name you use to access the web interface will be displayed here. However, if you are using click tracking, your network administrator may have set up other web interfaces to handle the load. If that is the case, enter the URL that should be used for click tracking.

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3.   Utilities: Administration: Sites: New Site: Message Wrapping

4.   Utilities: Administration: Sites: New Site: Information