From the course: Managing Mailing Lists with Mailman
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Sending and receiving list messages via email - Mailman Tutorial
From the course: Managing Mailing Lists with Mailman
Sending and receiving list messages via email
- Now that you've subscribed to the list, and configured your subscription to your preferences, you can send and receive list messages. At the moment, this list has only two subscribers. To help show how this works, I've opened their email in two windows. Suppose you are Sarah Howard, on the left, and you want to send a message to the list. All you have to do is compose a message, and set the address to ceramics@alumni.rouacademy.org. This address was prominently displayed in the welcome message you received when you subscribed, and is also at the top of the list info page. We'll send the First post to the list, and just have Hello everyone! as the body. Send it, and in just a minute, it's received by the other subscriber. Here it is. As you see, the list name, [Ceramics], has been added to the beginning of the subject line, and the list footer has been added below the content, Hello Everyone! The footer, as you recall, includes the list's short description, the list address, a link…