Mailing Lists 

E-Mail->MailingLists

Mailing lists are a means by which you can have a single e-mail distributed to a group of people. There are three types of mailing list supported by the Server: Internal mailing lists, External mailing lists and Automatic mailing lists. You can e-mail to a mailing list from both internal and Internet locations. Typical examples of mailing lists are "Sales", "Enquiries" and "Customers"

You can also use Mailing Lists to direct e-mail to a person by their job description, thus separating the e-mail address from the individual who currently fills the post, for example "Personnel". You can also use Mailing Lists to make a person seem to be on e-mail even if they do not have a PC, by having their e-mail diverted to another user. For example a director may want his e-mail dealt with by his PA.  However, where you simply want to give a user more than one e-mail name, such as "john" and "john.doe", it is better to use Aliases.

A mailing list name can consist of upper and lower case letters, numbers and the characters ".", "-" and "_".

Special mailing lists
There is a special mailing list used by the system called BadMail. If this mailing list exists, then all e-mails that are sent with an unknown user name but with a valid mail domain, will be delivered to BadMail.