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I already have a list of addresses for my mailing list. How can I subscribe the entire list?

 

E-mail programs vary in the way preferences and options are setup. Your POP3 account is the account name you specify in your Mail Manager and your incoming POP3 server is always yourdomain.com.

You can create, delete and edit e-mail usernames and e-mail passwords at the Mail Manager through your web browser at http://yourdomain.com/menu/. Your e-mail User Name and Password are not necessarily the same as your web hosting account.

You can use our Web-Based E-mail Program or use a downloaded e-mail client to check e-mail (see screenshot below). The web-based program is a simple sender/receiver program, while the downloaded program is a more powerful solution.

E-Mail Setup:

Incoming Mail (POP3): yourdomain.com
Outgoing Mail (SMTP): Same as the e-mail account with your ISP. For example: if your provider is EarthLink, it will look like this: mail.earthlink.net. This will not effect your mail address, just the outgoing server it is sent through, no one can see the difference.

POP3 Account Username:

This will be the e-mail account name (i.e. 'webmaster' or 'support') you create through your mail manager in your control panel, note this will not always be the same as your control panel login and password, this can be different and changed through the mail manager in seconds.

All mail by default (any-address@yourdomain.com) will automatically be forwarded to your main account. It's not necessary to create separate mailboxes for different accounts unless they are assigned to different people. Additional accounts can be created, edited, deleted from the mail manager. You can also, setup different passwords from your e-mail manager for each e-mail account.

Setting up Microsoft Outlook Express:

1. After loading Outlook, choose Tools... --> Accounts ...

2. Click mail tab, then add mail account, Click OK.

3. The wizard will take you through several steps;

  • Display Name - Put your e-mail address, next

  • E-mail Address - Put your e-mail address, next

  • Incoming mail (POP3) - yourdomain.com (no http://)

  • Outgoing mail (SMTP) - The same as you ISP's outgoing SMTP, next

  • Account name: E-mail username,

  • Account password: E-mail password, next

  • Finish, you're done!

Free Outlook Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/oe/


Setting up Eudora:

1. Select Tools then Personalities.

2. Right click the left-hand side of the screen. Select 'New'.

3. The 'New Account Wizard' will appear. Type in a name for this account and select 'Next>'.

4. Select 'Create a brand new e-mail account' and select 'Next>'.

5. Type in your actual name (not your e-mail address. and select 'Next>'.

6. Type in the e-mail address you wish for people to send e-mail to (this can be an alias or a true POP box.. Select 'Next>'.

7. Type in the true user for this POP box (this is NOT an alias.. Select 'Next>'.

8. Select 'POP' for type of incoming mail server. Then type in your domain name in 'Incoming Mail Server' field. Select 'Next>'.

9. Select 'Finish'.

10. Right-click on the new personality created, and select 'Modify'.

11. In the 'SMTP Server' field, type the name of your local ISP's (such as AOL, Earthlink, AT&T. mail server. Select 'OK', and you are ready to go!


Free Eudora Download:
http://eudora.qualcomm.com/eudoralight/



The 'dist' file is the distribution list -- the list of recipients. To add a pre-existing list of recipients, copy it into the dist file:

/home/username/yourdomainname-mail/listname/dist

You can add a short list by hand or by cut-and-paste. For a really long list, you may want to download the dist file, edit it using a word processing program, save it as text or ASCII, and then upload the edited file.

The following conditions apply:

    1. One subscriber per line.

    2. Empty lines are allowed.

    3. The mail address of the subscriber must be the first word on the line.

    4. Comments may follow the address (but separated from the address by at least one blank space. character).

    5. Everything preceding the line containing:
    (Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)
    is write-protected from changes (i.e. these addresses can never be automatically/accidentally un-subscribed).

    6. If the line:
    "Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed"
    is not present at all, automatic subscription removal to this list are impossible.

    7. New subscribers will always appear on the line immediately following the last filled entry in the distribution file.

Some sample entries (the preferred format):
joe@some.where
joe@some.where (some comment)
joe@some.where (some comment) (some more comments)

Depreciated, but allowed:
<joe@some.where>
<joe@some.where> some comment
<joe@some.where> (some comment)

Not allowed:
(some comment) joe@some.where
some comment <joe@some.where>

Note: adding to the distribution file for a list automatically adds to the accept file as well, unless you have turned off foreign submissions.

 

 

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