Mailing lists are a set of email addresses who receive electronic mail as a group. Depending on what the goal of the group is, the features needed for the mailing list to work effectively will differ. For instance, a different set of features is needed if the group wishes to discuss an issue to come to a consensus, as opposed to a group who all receive announcements of new classical music recordings.
List settings govern how your list works. When you create your list, the type of list you selected determined the settings for your list. These settings are appropriate for most lists like yours, but you may want to fine-tune these settings.
Basic Information
The basics for your list:
-Specify the topic and description for your list.
-Specify what kinds of email delivery and subscription reportsyou'd like to have emailed to you.
-Specify whether or not you'd like to save archives and recipient information, or whether the list should allow postings through other ListManager lists.
-Set whether or not you'd like set open tracking and HTML detection as defaults.
-Disable the list, or set a maximum number of members.
New Subscriber Policy
Control how people join your list:
-Specify whether new subscribers must confirm their memberships by responding to a confirmation message, or confirm when they unsubscribe.
-Determine how secureyour list is—can anyone join? Do they require a password, or is it private? Or can members only be added by an administrator? Can people subscribe by email, or only through the ListManager web interface?
-Specify who can or cannot join your list.
Email Submitted Content
Control what mailings look like when sent via email to the list. These settings are not in effect when sending through the ListManager administration web interface in most cases.
-Specify what text wrapping should come at the beginning and end of every message sent via email to the list.
-Determine what securityshould be in place for email posting. Specify whether messages can be sent via email, and who can send to the list.
-Specify whether approvalis required for email submitted messages.
-Specify what additionsand revisionsto the header should be made, such as the default From:, To: and Reply To: headers.
Web Created Content
Control the default settings for content and mailings created through the ListManager administrator's web interface.
Automatic Maintenance
Keeps your server running smoothly by removing bad email addresses:
-Specify when members should be held (no longer delivered to) due to delivery problems.
-Specify how frequently to purge inactive members from the database.
-Specify how long to keep message archives.
Users' Web Interface
Determine how you'd like your list to work if list members access it through the ListManager web interface:
-Specify message reading settings: who can see the list's messages, and what methods they may use.
-Specify new membership requirements if subscribing through the ListManager web interface.
-Provide information about your list in the ListManager web interface.
-Limit access to ListManager's conferencingfeature.
Discussion Group Features
Determine settings primarily used in discussion groups (those where recipients can also send messages to the list):
-Specify how the message looks: whether or not to prepend the list's name to the Subject: line, or whether postings can be anonymous
-Specify message wrapping for digests.
-Specify posting security: who can write to the list, and who can see the list of members.
-Specify automatic reasons to reject messages.
For Programmers
Allows programmers additional control over what messages should look like.
-Specify who is allowed to include scriptingin messages, including mail merge and conditional text.
-Specify programming extensionsto be run before and after messages.
Map of All Settings
A site index of all the list settings.
More
1. Utilities: List Settings: Basic Information
2. Utilities: List Settings: New Subscriber Policy
3. Utilities: List Settings: Email Submitted Content
4. Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content
5. Utilities: List Settings: Automatic Maintenance
6. Utilities: List Settings: Discussion Forum Interface
7. Utilities: List Settings: Discussion Group Features
8. Utilities: List Settings: For Programmers