creating a user managable listserv on Exchange 2007 (not a server side distribution list) that external users can send to
I've got an SBS 2008 box, and a user who would like to a listserve for internal and external use. For example, the email address is project1@company.com. We want internal and external users to be able to send to this list.
On the project1 list, there are 5 internal users and 25 external users. I know I can do this in Exchange Management Console where I create 25 mail contacts and add them to a distribution group. But the problem with this setup is that only an administrator can make edits to the list. Each time they want to make a change to the list (which is several times a week), I have to go in and make the changes myself since it requires EMC access.
Are there any Exchange built in options for creating and managing a distribution group? I thought about creating a public folder and letting the user create a distribution list in the public folder, but that would only allow internal users to use the list, not external users.
Any ideas including 3rd party apps or services?
On the project1 list, there are 5 internal users and 25 external users. I know I can do this in Exchange Management Console where I create 25 mail contacts and add them to a distribution group. But the problem with this setup is that only an administrator can make edits to the list. Each time they want to make a change to the list (which is several times a week), I have to go in and make the changes myself since it requires EMC access.
Are there any Exchange built in options for creating and managing a distribution group? I thought about creating a public folder and letting the user create a distribution list in the public folder, but that would only allow internal users to use the list, not external users.
Any ideas including 3rd party apps or services?
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@suriyaehnop - then what process does the user to make changes/deletions to the list. The hard part is that when new external users are added, a new mail contact must be created.
About 5 times a week, I have to go through the same damn process -
create a new mail contact
add that mail contact to the distribution group
About 5 times a week, I have to go through the same damn process -
create a new mail contact
add that mail contact to the distribution group
You need to create a new mailcontact/mailbox and ask them to add to the DL by themselves. For exisitng one (mailbox/contact), they can remove by themselves also.
Without a source in your environment (a contact for a external user) there is no option to allow an users to add a account as member of a distribution list.
Creating a New Contacting and Adding it as a member of a Distribution List is an administrative task, which has to be done by a user having permission like you.
Allowing a user to have permission on DL will allow the users to edit the members of a DL like adding and removing a member, to perform that, we need a contact account in server.
Creating a New Contacting and Adding it as a member of a Distribution List is an administrative task, which has to be done by a user having permission like you.
Allowing a user to have permission on DL will allow the users to edit the members of a DL like adding and removing a member, to perform that, we need a contact account in server.
@dmessman,
Like Raj said creating mailbox/contact is administrative task but you can left administrative task on DL (adding/removing) to owner of DL. Your workload will reduce 50% :)
Like Raj said creating mailbox/contact is administrative task but you can left administrative task on DL (adding/removing) to owner of DL. Your workload will reduce 50% :)
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In the end, I resolved this outside of Exchange. I bought a new domain name and set up hosting on a server that has mailman listserve capability (in this case, site5.com). With mailman, the user can have 100% control of additions and deletions from the list.
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You can give permission to the user who will be administrator of this DL. This user will able to remove/add member of this DL.