Mailing List HELP
How to create and manage a mailing list for your AGoodWeb.com-hosted account

Overview: The Mailing List program is SmartList. It enables you to create an email address in your domain and any mail sent to this address goes automatically to all list members. There is an autosubscribe and autounsubscribe mechanism.

1. Go to your Control Panel located at:

http://yourdomain.com/menu

Use your username and password to gain entrance.

2. Click on "Mailing List". You must first make sure the mailing list program is installed.

3. Once the mailing list program has been installed on your website, go to the "Mail Manager" in the Control Panel.

4. Create a new list (bottom left menu) which will be your mailing list address. You might like to pick a name that represents what the list is going to be used for.

5. After the address is created you can change it to be a newsletter which only you can send to, an open list which anyone can join and send to, or a moderated list which must have the messages approved by a moderator to be sent to the list.

6. To subscribe to the mailinglist, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list. For example, if your list name is list@mydomain.com People can subscribe by sending an email to: list-request@mydomain.com with the Subject: subscribe

Each list has a digest form to which people can subscribe too. This sends a digest to them instead of each individual message as it is posted to the list. To subscribe to the digest, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the Subject: field to the following address (using our example above) To: list-d-request@mydomain.com with the Subject: subscribe

To send email to the mailinglist, write to the following address: To: list@mydomain.com or in other words, the address you created.

To unsubscribe from the mailinglist, simply send a message with the word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list, for example to: list-request@mydomain.com Subject: unsubscribe

To unsubscribe from the digest, write a email like this: To: list-d-request@mydomain.com Subject: unsubscribe

7. Edit the properties of your list by first clicking on HOME to refresh the list of addresses and then click on the list address you just created.

Go to Administer "address" to change your list to a newsletter, subscriber-only list, or moderated list. Set a moderator email address.

Back in the Mailing List Editor you can set the email address of the moderator with a password. Then use the Mailing List Manager to perform maintenance tasks for your list. Input the proper email address and password for the moderator (you) and then you can:

Have the list of addresses emailed to you by using "Show List of Subscribers."
View the log: "Show Log"
Wipe the log: "Wipe Log" - clear it
Search for an address
Subscribe or unsubscribe email addresses manually.

NOTE: When you execute an "X-Command"- you get a screen with a message that the x-command has been executed. You should receive your information in an email shortly.

More information on SmartList can be found at:

http://www.hartzler.net/smartlist/SmartList-FAQ.html