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Administrating Zimbra

Finally, we will go ahead and create a Distribution List to send to all of our users (well, the two of them we have so far).

Creating a Distribution List

Distribution lists are very handy, as they are used to create a mailing list of multiple users, but the sender only needs to enter in one email address to reach all of these users. This saves a lot of time on the user's part and also facilitates better

communication by making sure everyone receives necessary information without the worry of a user leaving someone off of the list. To begin, create our distribution list:

1.Single-click Distribution Lists from the Addresses section of the Navigation Pane.

2.Click New from the upper-left-hand corner of the Content Pane.

3.Give the list the name users and keep the default of emailcs.com for the domain.

4.Display name could be entered as All Users and no description is necessary, as I think this is pretty self explanatory.

5.On the right-hand side of the screen, we could go ahead and add members to our distribution list. By clicking on SEARCH, all users will be listed that are on the server. If we had a lot of users, we could type in a search criteria in the search text box.

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6. Highlight [e-mail] and [e-mail] and click Add.

7.Once completed, click Save in the upper-left-hand corner and your distribution list is complete.

We have spent a good amount of time looking into the Administration Console and have seen how useful it is in helping email administrators manage the system and its users. However, there is also another way to mange the Zimbra Collaboration

Suite that is very appealing to Linux users, and that is by way of the Command Line Interface (CLI).

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