What is a Mailing List?

About

A mailing list is a list of email address.

The users:

• may have subscribed to the list
• or are a part of a group

Storage

The list is stored as an alias (ie an alias has one or many addresses listed).

How it works?

When an email is sent to the mailing list:

• the sender is set to the mailing list address
• the from header (author) of the message may be set:
  • to the mailing list address
  • to a unique address

Unsubscribe

A mechanism should be provided to be able to unsubscribe.

To unsubscribe, the user needs to:

• send an email to a specific address. example: [email protected]
• click on a URL that is specified by the List-Unsubscribe header

List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.example.com/email-unsubscribe?listid=xxxx>

Mailing list manager

• Mailman