Mailing Lists

[bellringr]

I would like to set up a mailing list on my account for a relative of mine, but I have a few questions. I only used 293 megs of my 5 gigs bandwidth last month, so I know we'd have to work very hard to get close to max. However, we may have up to a few hundred people on the list at any one time. When an e-mail is sent out to such a large list, how does the server look at it bandwidth-wise? Is it one e-mail, or several hundred?

 

Also, is it possible for this relative to get into the admin site to do maintenance without accessing my cpanel?

 

Thanks

 

Kristi

[TCH-Dick]

If you have 200 ppl on the mailing list it is the same as sending 200 individual messages.

 

Your relative could have access to the mailing list admin but I'd suggest not using mailman and installing Dada Mail instead, its a lot easier to understand/use and much more configureable

 

http://mojo.skazat.com/

[bellringr]

Mike,

 

I appreciate the advice....I'm just feeling supremely lazy and don't want to go through the hassle of installing a script. I didn't think Mailman was too bad - I had to read the explanation of a couple of settings, but it does what I need.

 

If I recall correctly, there is a link to the admin page in the e-mail the system sends out when I create the list, right?

[TCH-Dick]

I think so, the main problem with mailman is I dont recall being able to set it up to send out e-mail over a set period of time, remember we have a limit