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For UAlbany community members who need to send email to large groups of people at once or very often, there are some options:
- LISTSERV lists: Can be requested by any permanent faculty/staff of the University. There are no limits on the number of subscribers on a list. Owners of a Listserv list can manage the membership of their lists themselves. Listserv lists do not appear in the GAL (Global Address List).
- Public Distribution Groups: Can be requested by any permanent faculty/staff of the University. The Distribution Groups may only contain people or groups listed in the GAL (Global Address List). These Distribution Groups will be visible in the GAL. Managers of these Distribution Groups can manage the membership of their groups themselves and can also control who may send email to the group.
- Brightspace: Faculty using Brightspace can use the system to email students in their courses. If you are unfamiliar with the Brightspace email feature, please visit Communicate using Email. Messages sent through Brightspace are not subject to these limits.
- MyUAlbany: Faculty and advisors can use MyUAlbany's web self-service to email their students and advisees directly from their course list. Messages sent through MyUAlbany are not subject to these limits.
Note: For applications and scripts running on University servers that need to send messages directly via SMTP, access to a UAlbany-hosted SMTP server is available upon request. Please note that this service is expressly designed for servers only; not individual mail accounts.
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