How do I create a Listserv mailing list?

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Overview

Any Purdue faculty or staff member can have a Listserv created for official, academic, research, and/or administrative duties.

Officers of official student organizations can also create Listservs for official club business.

Anyone with a current Purdue email address of the form username@purdue.edu can request the creation of a mailing list.

Instructions

To have a Listserv created, fill out the Listserv Request Form at https://forms.office.com/r/CrHcBzrbH8 (to use the form, you must log in to  your Purdue Microsoft account, using your Purdue career account name and password, and you may be asked to authenticate using Microsoft MFA).

Please note that the Listserv list will be created in the @lists.purdue.edu domain. Your list’s email address will end with @lists.purdue.edu (listname@lists.purdue.edu).

Only one owner is set when the list is created. Additional owners, as well as list members, can be set by the initial owner once the list is created.

Listservs can be managed via commands sent through e-mail or through a web interface.

Complete documentation for keywords and commands is available at L-Soft's web site.

 

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Created
Thu 10/5/23 8:32 PM
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