Exchange 2003 to host a mailing list

[meastaugh1]

Hi,

I'd like to set up several mailing lists on an exchange server which external users can un/subscribe to either by sending an e-mail to a certain address, or by completing a web form. Is Exchange capable of this? If not, is there an afforable add-on which will enable Exchange to do it?

Cheers

 

[58sniper]

GFI Mail Essentials will do it.

Pat Richard, MCSE(2) MCSA:Messaging, CNA(2)

 

[markdmac]

I would go with the web form and have ASP code to do the join. Main problem you will face is the need to validate that it is a real person filling in the form and not some spyware or autobot. I was amazed to find hundreds of registrations in the Guest database for my Homeowners Association site which I manage. There were over 300 that had been filled in by non-humans. It is crazy! This is why sites like Passport have you type in what you see in a whacky window. The skewed text throws off OCR aware programs and prevents an invalid registration. Even if you display the same skewed image each time I think this is a very needed step. I am in the process of adding it to my site.

The code to add to the group is rather easy with vbscript.

Set objGroup = GetObject _
 ("LDAP://CN=atl-users,ou=hr,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")
objGroup.Remove _
 "LDAP://cn=MyerKen,OU=management,dc=fabrikam,dc=com"

The trick is that you first need to take their email address and make a Contact out of that first. Again not very hard to do with vbscript.


I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark