Creating Email Lists in Webcrossing

Building on the concept of email subscriptions, Webcrossing allows you to create email lists - archived on the web and fully searchable.

First, turn on full-email subscriptions as an option.  This means users who subscribe by this method will receive a copy of each post by email - as you can see, this is already half of the equation.  Now you just need to enable post-by-email. Now create a folder you want to hold your email archives. In the folder settings, there is an option to "make this folder an email list."  That's all you need to do.  Anybody who is subscribed by email can reply back and it will be posted on the web, filed appropriately in the correct discussion in the correct folder.

There is a page of settings (image at right) where you can tweak various aspects of your list, like what the reply address is, or add any special headers you want added.

You can also mirror external email lists or copy all posts from your list to some other address (such as another external list).

There is also a "Mailing List Administration" plug-in to make managing your user lists easier.

All in all, it's quite handy, and quite flexible.