Distribution Lists

Information about accessing Mailman from off campus

Information about users being automatically unsubscribed from a list

Information about creating a text file containing the members of a list

Information about how long archives are available

Information about images that are not appearing in messages sent to a list

Information about your setting and retrieving Mailman password

Information on how to post to a list

Sometimes messages are inadvertently posted to a Mailman mailing list, such as when "Automatic reply" messages are generated as out-of-office message responses to a post to a mailing list. This procedure will prevent "Automatic replies" from being posted to a list and cause them to be deleted immediately.1

Information about replacing the current members of a Mailman list with new members

Email distribution lists are a convenient means of contacting large groups of people. The University of Wyoming offers an email distribution list hosting and management package called Mailman. Mailman offers a robust feature set and convenient web interface to manage lists

When emergency moderation is turned on, all postings to the list are held for moderation instead of being posted to the list.

Use this option if many members are posting to the list and you need to stop additional postings. This may occur if the list is not configured for moderation and members begin replying to earlier posts to the list, resulting in a "spamming-like" effect. This is particularly a problem if there are many members on the list.