How do I create a mailing list or distribution list?

As you might have guessed already, a room is the entity providing this functionality. You need to have at least room-aide privileges to access this feature. By default, you may want to choose public forum rooms or public mail folders for this; you may however find use cases where other roomtypes make sense too.

Citadel incorporates a fully functional listserver. It provides both single-message and digest modes, and allows self-service subscribe/unsubscribe via Webcit, and administrator controlled subscription. Multiple email addresses can be added at once; You also can choose email addresses from all your addressbooks.

The administration screens in WebCit (Advanced -- Advanced room commands -- Edit or delete this room -- Mailing list service) provide the most intuitive way of configuring and managing a list.

This screen offers also the ability to...

• add system global mail aliases for this room; for the way in, multiple addresses may be chosen; default is room_roomname@yourcitadel.org
• choose the alias which should be used as "from-address" for this room when it sends mails to subscribers
• Add Recipients in digest mode
• Add Recipients (each mail)
• Choose message post policy
• - "Allow non-subscribers to mail to this room" means anybody can send mail to this room. Also useful if you want to run a shared mailbox ala info@; else messages to all of the subscribed recipients may be sent from:
  • every local user
  • "Room post publication needs Admin permission." -> a newsleter multicast list - the room aide can send mails to a list of recipients, they may not answer.
  • "Allow self-service subscribe/unsubscribe requests." -> users may choose to subscribe / unsubscribe via webinterface; the URL you should propagate i.e. on your public website follows in the next line.

You can do most of this from the text mode client as well.