HBS Sympa Mailing lists - User Guide
How the Sympa mailing list service works
This mailing list service is managed by a mailing-list application: Sympa. This software comes with a web mailing list environment.
To post to a list, send email to [listname]@listsdev.hbs.edu
- If your sending address is allowed to post it will be processed.
- If your address does not have posting permission you will receive a reply stating that.
To perform actions related to mailing lists (subscribe, change your options, etc.), you have two options:
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log on to the web environment - the HBS login button is at the top of this, and every documentation page, or visit the HBS Sympa home page.
NOTE: Login is restricted to HBS.EDU accounts with CAS/Duo security authentication.
- send commands by email to the Sympa mailing list manager at sympa@listsdev.hbs.edu.
To send a command to Sympa, do as follows:
- Send from the email address subscribed to the list, or the address under which you own the list if sending a listowner command. Sympa uses your email address to validate you have permission to run the commands you send.
- If you send a single command, type it into the subject line of your email and leave its body blank.
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If you send several commands, leave the subject line of your email blank and type all the commands in the email body. Be careful: Sympa will not process your message unless you respect the following rules:
- Write every command on a new line.
- Send your message in plain text, not in HTML (no formatting).
- The last command line should be just the word END. This will prevent your message from failing if you have a signature block at the bottom of your emails.
- Your message can not contain anything other than Sympa commands (no signature block unless you remember to make the final command line the word END).
A description of all the commands you can send to Sympa is available at mail_commands.