Email List? Forwards?

[scotttyz]

I need to set up 2 sets of email (acccounts? lists? forwards?)

 

We have about 12 email addresses (@****) I need to set up a (whatever) that send an email to 4 of them and another that emails about 8 of them. Anyone should be able to send an email to these.

 

If i set up forwards it looks like I am going to have to also set up an email account that would require me to "empty" on a regular basis. Am I wrong on this??

 

Mailman looks like it would not allow non-list members to send emails to "the list"

 

 

The other hosts I have been with have all had a "forwards to" type of email accounts that did not store the messages but allowed us to send out emails to our different groups.

[wigoweb]

My experience with a Forward account, is that the account simply passes the email message to all of the recipients. As long as you can add a list of recipients for the one forwarded account, you should be all set.

 

There should not be any mail left in the Forward account for you to go empty.

[scotttyz]

So am I incorrect that we need to create an acual email account for the "forwards" email address? I did create an acual email address (list1@****) then set up forwards from list1@ to User1, to User2, etc. I do have email sitting in the list1@ email account.

[TCH-Rick]

You do not need to set up an email account for a forwarder. Just create the forwarder and all mail sent to that address will be forwarder. As mentioned in several forum posts, I would not recommend forwarding mail to an AOL accounyt due to the problems with their SPAM protection techniques.

[scotttyz]

Thanks for the info Rick.

 

I am not sending (nor do I recomend using) AOL. All the "forwards" are our @ourdomain emails.