What is a Mailing List Server?

A mailing list server is a server used by individuals or organizations to send material name and address collections to multiple recipients.

A mailing list is actually a service based on email. It is based on the idea of sending an ordinary letter. If we want to send a message to a user, we must specify a recipient address in the mail editing window. If we need to send information to more than one person at the same time, we must specify multiple email addresses in the recipient address of the email editing window. When the number of recipient addresses is not too large (several or dozens), the workload of filling in the recipient addresses is not too large; but if the number of recipient addresses is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, fill in The workload of the email address is very heavy. So how can you send a letter to many users at the same time in a short period of time? So someone came up with a good way. Suppose we treat all these recipient addresses as a whole, and take a special mail address for the whole. In the future, as long as we send mail to this special mail address, all people will Can receive, which greatly improves work efficiency.

For example, suppose the author wants to send the same message to the three users a, b, and c. According to the conventional method, I must enter the address of the three users a, b, and c in the recipient address. Email addresses [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]: I just need to create a mailing list address [e-mail], and add the mail addresses of the above 3 users to this mailing list, Then, this mailing list address represents the mail addresses of the above three people. Whenever I want to send the same message to these three people, I only need to enter [e-mail] in the address box of the mail editor window ^[1]

1.Subscribe via WWW

As a mailing list administrator, when you successfully apply for a mailing list, you will get a piece of html source code. You must place the html source code on your personal homepage or the required page. If a user wants to subscribe to your mailing list, just enter his email address in the corresponding address bar, and then click the "Subscribe" button to subscribe to the email list. This is the most common and popular A subscription method.

2.Subscribe by Email

Because users connect to the Internet in different ways, some users do not have the ability to browse the web, so they cannot subscribe through WWW. If you are this kind of user, you can use the method of sending e-mail to subscribe to the mailing list, of course this method is also completely applicable to users who can subscribe to the mailing list by Wshan way. After receiving the user's subscription letter, the mailing list server can automatically process instructions according to the user's requirements, so that the user can conveniently subscribe to the mailing list. So how do we edit such a subscription letter so that the mailing list server can correctly recognize your instructions? In general, the format of a subscription letter looks like this:

To: Mailing list administrator email address

Title: (blank)

Text: subseribe

For example, suppose you want to subscribe to a mailing list in Pentium Networks. You can use the "subscirbe" command to add your email address to the corresponding mailing list so that you can participate in the discussion. We can send an e-mail to [e-mail], where "xxxx" is the name of the mailing list we want to subscribe to, and enter the "subscribe" command at the beginning of the body of the mail, as follows:

To: test one [e-mail]

Title: (blank)

Text: subseribe

The mailing list server will add our email address to the mailing list of [e-mail] after receiving our subscription letter. However, some mailing list servers have different requirements for the format of the subscription letter. For example, if we are interested in reports and commentary on current affairs news, socio-economics and other aspects, we can subscribe to such a letter on the Enlightenment mailing list Free emails, the specific subscription format is:

To: qimeng @ bigfoot · com

Title: subseribeqimeng

Body: (blank)

If the user wants to unsubscribe from a certain mailing list, it is also very simple. We just need to change the "subseribe" in the body part to "unbseribe".

1. Don't rush to send articles to a mailing list;

2. Try to be familiar with the subscription rules of each mailing list;

3. Pay attention to distinguish between the application address and the use address of the mailing list;

4. Try to use free email to subscribe to the mailing list;

5. Set up a mailbox for each mailing list;

6. Take the information sent by the mailing list administrator seriously.