NIH LISTSERV Facility
User's Guide
October 2001

There are two ways to send mail, or "post" to a list: send the message from the LISTSERV User Web Interface, or send it via e-mail. Posting from the Web Interface is detailed in "Posting Messages to a List From the Web Interface." The following section describes how to post to a list via e-mail.

NOTE: You must use the e-mail method of posting to the list if you wish to include attachments with your message. (At present, the web interface accommodates only plain text.)

To send mail, or "post," to a list, address an e-mail message to:

listname@list.nih.gov

where listname is the name of the list to which you wish to post. For example, if you were sending a message to the "TLC-L" list at NIH LISTSERV facility, you would send your mail to:

tlc-l@list.nih.gov

After you've typed the address, fill in the subject and body of the message as usual, then send the message.

Sending mail to a list should not be confused with sending commands to LISTSERV, which is described in the next section (see Appendix B, "Sending Commands To LISTSERV").