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MemberManual / Email / MailingLists

This page describes how to set up and manage mailing lists on your domain.

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Before continuing with this page, you probably want to read DomainTool to learn the basics of how we handle shared daemon configuration.

If you would like a mailing list managed by our global [http://www.list.org/ Mailman] installation you must first [https://members.hcoop.net/portal/list place a request on the portal]. You then have a choice between doing list management at [http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/LISTNAME http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/''LISTNAME] or at your own domain.

If you are fine with using the main hcoop.net site for your list's web interface, then there is nothing left to do except wait for the list to be created. If you would like the web interface to be at your own domain, then you must do some simple domain configuration.

LISTNAME is the name you gave your list, DOMAIN is your domain, and TLD is the TLD (org, com, name, ...) of your domain, VHOST is the virtual subdomain you would like the web interface to be accesible from. If you want to access the site from your domain with no subdomain then use the default virtual host for VHOST.

Now the list admin web interface will be available at http://VHOST.DOMAIN.TLD/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/LISTNAME.

Note that you can host mailing lists with us that use your own domains even if your domain is primarily hosted elsewhere. However, the best way we know of doing this is for you to point your domain's MX record to mail.hcoop.net. If you don't know what this means, then you probably shouldn't be trying anything so complicated as splitting a domain's hosting between several providers in the first place.