Talk:Discussion Lists

Any chance we can get some info here on how to set up a discussion list in advance of pointing DNS to DreamHost's nameservers? Bigbrotherinlaw 14:22, 9 Oct 2006 (PDT)

No Maillist Archives yet?

I keep getting this message, even though a number of message have been exchanged on the "List". Is there something else I need to do, or is the archive simply exceptionally slow at being populated, It has been at least 12 hours since the list was created and messages exchanged?

The List-domain.com Archives
No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are currently empty.
You can get more information about this list.

--Dolio 20:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

tech support said "It appears that there was a bad list over-loading the archive function. We've since resolved this issue." all is well now. I am under the impression that it wasn't any of my own lists which caused the problem. So I guess you should contact support to resolve such issues. --Dolio 02:34, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

What "Convenience Addresses" are being set up?

When creating a new discussion list you see this option:

"Create Convenience Addresses: Sets up email aliases at the main domain, ex: @yourdomain.com"

But what email aliases are being set up? This wiki documentation page doesn't answer this question either. Can someone add a list, at least on this wiki page, of what aliases are being set up and what they're for?

(I originally set up a discussion list without checking this box since I didn't know what it did, and I hadn't read this wiki page yet which said it was recommended. Now I suspect that you had to check that box in order for your list address to not be listname@lists.yourdomain.com but listname@yourdomain.com  ? But how would I know since there's no real documentation about what this little checkbox does? I've since edited the list and checked the box to set up these aliases, but I still don't know what they are or what they do.) --Waltztime

Ok, I've just added some documentation for this myself, after seeing what addresses were set up for my list. --Waltztime 08:39, 1 March 2012 (PST)