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Mailing Lists (Majordomo)

Overview Faculty, staff, and students can create and maintain mailing lists through a centrally managed service called “Majordomo” to facilitate communication to or between members of groups such as classes, co-workers, colleagues, and friends.
Available To Students, Faculty, Staff, Departments
Benefits With a central Majordomo list:

  • You don’t have to maintain a large list within your own address book, where it’s inaccessible to others in the group.
  • Participants can write to a single address (e.g., example-list@bu.edu) to reach everyone subscribed to that list.
  • Majordomo lists can include far more recipients than you can include in a personal mailing.
  • You can easily manage your mailing lists or allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves, for even easier list maintenance.
Key Features
  • General Mailing List
    Students, faculty, and staff can create a general mailing list. Once you create a list, you (the list manager) can populate it with your targeted e-mail addresses, or you can allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves. Many options are available, e.g., you can restrict who can send to the list or specify that only mailings you approve are sent to the list.

  • Course List (Faculty only)
    Course lists are automatically created (and updated with current registration data during the semester) for every course offered at the University. Only faculty have access to activate and administer a course list.

  • Administrative List (Faculty and staff only)
    Faculty and staff can create administrative lists based on criteria such as college, department, or major. The e-mail addresses in this list are populated by Information Services & Technology, based on criteria that you (the list creator) supply.
Requirements You must have a BU login name and Kerberos password to access the list creation forms.
Cost No charge
Getting Started See  Using Majordomo.