Help for Edit E-mail List


Description of the information displayed

The Edit E-mail List page lets you change the characteristics (for example, a password) of an e-mail list. The current characteristics of an e-mail list appears when the page is displayed (excluding the e-mail list password).

Note: For security reasons, the existing e-mail list password is not filled in when this page is displayed. The password of the e-mail list is changed to the supplied password value whenever the characteristics of a e-mail list are updated.

List Name The name of the e-mail list. A valid e-mail list name consists of one or more characters, including mixed case characters, numerals, underscores, and hyphens.
Password The password of the new e-mail list. This password is not stored or sent via e-mail in an encrypted form. Do not use any system passwords. This password can be any combination of characters and is case sensitive.
Confirm Password Retype the new e-mail list password to confirm that you typed the password you intended.
Allow User Subscriptions (Optional) This option, when selected, permits anyone to subscribe to this e-mail list. By default, this option is turned off; therefore all subscription requests must be approved.
Allow Unsubscribed Postings (Optional) This option, when selected, permits anyone to post to this e-mail list. By default, this option is turned off; therefore, only users with subscriptions are allowed to post.
E-mail Addresses This is a list of e-mail addresses that receive postings to this e-mail list. At least one valid e-mail address must be included. Validation consists only of verifying the characters entered are of the form: userid@hostname.



Description of the buttons and actions available

submit Click this button to update the characteristics of the selected E-mail List with the supplied values.
cancel Click this button to show a list of e-mail lists.