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

This setting determines the path clickthroughs and other tracking use when they are merged in your mailings. By default, the host name of the machine ListManager is installed on will be displayed. Example:

 

http://lists.example.com

 

This setting does not determine the URL that administrators or discussion forum interface users use to access your server. That is determined by any DNS entries your ISP or sys admin has created for your ListManager server.

 

See Logging In and Accessing and Logging into the Discussion Forum Interface for more information about the ListManager URL.

 

If you have a high volume of clickthroughs or other tracking, your network administrator may have set up other web servers to handle the load. If that is the case, enter the URL of the other web servers that should be used for clicktracking.

More

 

1.   Utilities: Administration: Sites - Overview

1.   Utilities: Administration: Sites: New Site: Essentials

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

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

 

 

 

 

Incoming IP Address

This is visible to both site and server administrators. The Incoming IP address displays the IP address of the mail server that is connecting to ListManager. This determines which domain should be displayed in the response.

 

The IP addresses displayed for these options are determined by a server configuration setting in: Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Network Settings: Ports: System IP Address.

 

Outgoing IP Address

When connected to another mail server, this displays the IP address from which it is connected to. The IP address depends on the current site.

 

The IP addresses displayed for these options are determined by a server configuration setting in: Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Network Settings: Ports: System IP Address. Any addresses that are taken out of another site are excluded from the list of options.

 

For both incoming and outgoing connections, If "Any IP Address" is displayed, it will use any available IP address for SMTP connections. Choosing this option sets it to 1.0.0.0, and the operating system then chooses which address to bind to. If specified, the first TCP/IP address specified in the Multiple TCP/IP Addresses setting (in Utilities: Administration: Server Settings: Network Settings: Receive Email) will be used for outgoing SMTP connections. For more information on how to set this, please see Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Network Settings: Ports: System IP Address.

 

This setting is useful when you want to have ListManager send mail out on a different IP address than the ones it listens to. This is required in some configurations where multiple network cards are used.

 

Limit to License Level

This is only visible to server administrators. When configuring sites, server administrators can decrease the features of a site to either the Enterprise, Pro, or Standard level. The license capability set for the "current list" that you are logged into will apply at the site.

 

This allows site-based license decreases, where a particular site can have a lower license level (i.e. Pro or Standard) than that set at the server level.


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