Creating Mailing Lists

This section outlines the procedure for creating a mailing list. Remember that you should have completed the Basic Configuration before attempting this.

To create a mailing list, click on the [Create A Mailing List] link on the bottom of the page. A pop-up window will appear. You need to provide a name for the list, a virtual domain, and the email address of the list owner. The list name should not contain certain special characters or whitespace. Select a virtual domain from the list of existing virtual domains on this machine. The mailing list will be created in the selected virtual domain. If there are no virtual domains, you need to create one in the Virtual Domains section of Secure Mail Suite. Refer to section 6.3.2 of Guardian Digital Secure Mail Suite manual for more information about creating virtual domains.

The email address of the list will be <listname>@<virtual domain name> and all posts to this list should be sent to this address. For example, if the list name is engarde-users and the domain name is guardiandigital.com, then then email address for posting messages to the the list will be engarde-users@guardiandigital.c-om. Secure List Port will automatically create the necessary aliases and virtual domain addresses. Please take care not to remove those aliases and virtual domain addresses manually. The email address of the list owner is the address of the person who owns and monitors the list. List owner will automatically be subscribed to the mailing list as an administrator. Once you have provided all necessary information, click Create List to create the list.

In the example above, we create the list engarde-users in the virtual domain corp.guardiandigital.com. The email address of this list will be engarde-users@c-orp.guardiandigital.com. In other words, all posts to the list should be sent to the email address engarde-users@corp.guardiandigital.com. The list owner will be jerrin@guardiandigital.com.