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Adding or Modifying Mail Groups

Note: Add/Modify Mail Groups is applicable to UNIX systems only.

What do you want to do?

Add/Modify Mail Groups Form

The Add/Modify Mail Groups form is displayed when you select this option from the SU MANAGEMENT MENU.

This option allows you to create, amend and delete mail groups.

The creation of a mail group means that a message can also be sent to a group of users. An email group will hold email addresses of a number of other users. Any message sent to a group will be forwarded to all subscribers to that group. For example you could create a mail group for all the Point of Sale operators. Instead of having to notify all the Point of Sale operators by way of an individual E-mail to each E-mail address you could have set up a mail group containg all the Point of Sale operators. Sending the E-mail to that one Point of Sale mail group address will result in them all receiving it.

E-mail Groups: Listed here are the mail groups that have been set up.

Users for E-mail group: Listed here are the individual mail addresses of the users that belong to the selected group when you have selected a group from the E-mail group field.

Generate address book on exit: Set this check box to a tick to generate the address book on exiting the option.

Creating a new Mail Group

  1. Click on the New button. The "Add new email group" dialogue box appears

  2. Type in the name of your new email group

    Note: New users should only be created in lower case.

  3. Highlight the user/users that you require by clicking on them in the "Available user ID" grid.

    Tip: If you are happy with the selection that you have made from this grid, then click on the Reset button and start your selection again.

  4. Use the > (Greater than) key to add your selection to the new email group which will appear in the "New email group" grid.

    Tip: If you are unhappy about the selection in the "New email group" grid, then click the Clear button to clear the complete grid, or highlight the user that you do not require and use the < (Less than) key to return that user to the "Available user ID" grid.

  5. Click the Save button to save the new email group, this also returns you to the "Add/Modify Mail Groups" form where you must click Save again to save the new group back to the file

Amending a Mail Group

  1. Find the email group that you want to amend by either typing the name of the group in or by clicking on the Ellipsis button. The users will be displayed who belong to that mail group

  2. Click on the Amend button. The "Amend email group" dialogue box appears.

  3. Highlight the user/users by clicking on them in either the "New email group" grid or the "Available users ID" grid

  4. Use the > (Greater than) or < (Less than) keys to add or remove users from the email group selected.

Deleting a Mail Group

  1. Find the email group that you want to delete by either typing the name of the group in or by clicking on the Ellipsis button. The users will be displayed who belong to that mail group

  2. Click the Delete button, this will delete the email group that you selected.

buttons:

New: Creates a new group.

Note: If you create a new group that contains upper case characters it cannot become a member of another group. If you create a new group that contains lower case characters only then that group can become a member of another group.

Amend: Amend a user.

Delete: Deletes a mail group.

Save: Save the changes that you have made to the mail group.

Exit: Returns you to the SU MANAGEMENT MENU.

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