Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

20.7 How to use Mailing ListsExample: A user wants to subscribe to a list called discussion in the company.com domain.He/she sends a message with an empty message body from his/her email account to theaddressdiscussion-subscribe@company.com.After sending this message the user will receive an email requesting confirmation of the subscription.Once the user sends a response to this message, the user’s request will be accepted.This response system guarantees the authenticity of the user.According to the mailing list policy, the user will be either subscribed or will have to waitfor confirmation of a list moderator. If subscribed successfully, the new member will receivea welcome message.Members can unsubscribe by email at any time. The unsubscription can be done by sendingan email message with any content in the message body (it can be left empty) to the addressof the following form:-unsubscribe@.Example: A user intends to unsubscribe from the discussion mailing list in the company.comdomain. He/she sends a message with an empty message body from his/her email account tothe addressdiscussion-unsubscribe@company.com.After sending this message the user will receive an email requesting confirmation of the unsubscription.Once the user sends a response to this message, the user’s request will be accepted.After a response to the request is received, the user will receive a report regarding his/herunsubscription.Message postingIf a user intends to send a message to the mailing list, he/she must send it to the list address(e.g. discussion@company.com). According to the policy, the message will be either deliveredto each list member (including the sender if he/she belongs to list members) or forwardedto list moderators for approval. If the message is forwarded to a moderator, a report will bedelivered to the sender (if defined — see chapter 20.2) and the message will be sent to the listwhen allowed by a moderator. If the message is denied or not allowed by a moderator within7 days, the sender will receive a report as well.Aliases within Mailing ListsIn each mailing list, special email addresses are generated automatically. These addresses areused for special functions, such as member login, contact addresses of the list moderators,etc. Each of these addresses has the following form:-@(e.g. to send a request to the discussion mailing list help within the company.com domain,users will send a message to: discussion-help@company.com233