Mailing list

A moderator is a privileged user who generally controls activities on the mailing list. Typically, the responsibilities of a moderator may include

• regulating subscriptions to the list,
• reviewing and filtering message postings etc.
• In some cases, posting to a mailing list can also be limited to the moderators

Adding Moderators for a mailing list

When you create a mailing list, you need to specify at least one moderator. However, you can choose to add multiple users as moderators for a mailing list at any time. To add moderators –

• Go to Mail >> Manage Mailing Lists in your control panel.
• Click on the list for which you wish to add moderators.
• On the settings tab that follows, click on Add Moderators.

• Enter the email addresses of the users you wish to set as moderators, and click on Add.

Removing Moderators from a mailing list

You can remove specific users as moderators from a mailing list. However, at least one moderator must be specified for each list. To remove any additional moderators

• Navigate to the mailing list settings tab as described above
• Identify the email address of the moderator you wish to dismiss, and click on Remove.

Mailing lists contain a useful feature – you can use a series of pre-defined email addresses as commands to perform specific actions on the mailing list. For example, a user could send an email to such an email address to request subscription to the mailing list. If a command sent by a user is rejected by the mailing list, the user will receive an email notification in response.

Using these commands

Using commands on the mailing list is very simple. There is a specific email address assigned for each command on a mailing list. To execute that command, a user simply sends an email to this email address. Upon receiving the command email, the mailing list performs the necessary action and responds accordingly. Typically, an email user must send this command from the email address used to subscribe to the list. In certain cases, such as subscription or unsubscription requests, the mailing list would send an automated confirmation request to the user, which the user must reply to complete the action.

When sending the command email, the subject and body of the email are not significant and can be left blank.

Command List

Here is a list of all commands that users can perform on your mailing lists. To perform a task, simply send a blank email to the corresponding email address. (In the examples, yourdomain.com represents the the domain name for your email service.)