This feature is available with artica version 1.4.010916
If you are under this release you need to upgrade your Artica version.
If this version is not released use the How to upgrade Artica to a nightly build ?
Creating a distribution list with Artica will be construct in 4 steps.
- Enable the mailman service.
- Creating the user front-end
- Define roles and privileges.
- Create your distribution list.
1) Enable the mailman service.
- Go into Messaging/Routing and network,
- Click on the Mailing List Manager (Mailman) icon.
Turn to green the red circle in order to enable the Mailman service and click on Edit button.
Administrator have 2 privileges :
- Enable or disable the service
- Delete the mailing list directly from the disk.
2) Create the user front-end
The mailing management is an "user" operation trough the Artica end-user front-end.
You need to create it see Add a nice end-user interface for your users
3) Create privileges for your users.
Privileges are associated to a user's group that allow you to add several users able to add/delete Distributions list.
- Open your organisation and select Manage users and groups
- Select your group and click on the "Privilèges" icon
- Select the "Organization privileges" tab
- Turn to green the "Can manage email distribution lists" privilege
4) Create your distribution list.
Connect trough the end-user interface.
Not that these screen shots is in French but if your navigator is in English, the front-end will be switched automatically in English.
Go into Messaging/ Manage Mailman
Click on Add a new list
- Put in the list name field the mailing list you wants to create.
- Set the host name of the web server in order to browse the Administration interface.
- Click on Add button
- The main list will be refresh and your new mailing list is added.
- Click on the list,
- It will show you how to access to your mailing list settings front-end interface.
(If you cannot display the front-end interface this is because you have not added the web server name into your DNS. You can add it in your Host File on your system or
click on Add this list to your Local DNS if the Artica server is allowed to be a DNS server)
