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Sympa, Manually Add Subscriber to List

For Sympa List Masters, Privileged Owners and Normal Owners, follow the steps below to manually add a user to a Sympa list

Open a web browser and navigate to the "Gies Business - Mailing Lists" web interface (https://lists.giesbusiness.illinois.edu
Select “Campus Login” (top-right corner)


Log in using your "Campus AD Credentials"

Select the “Search for Lists(s)” or “My Lists” (bottom center) to find the specific mailing list you want to modify


Search for list (if not using "My Lists" Navigation)

Select on the list name to access its management page



On the list page, make a note of the number of subscribers (i.e. Subscribers:601) and select on the "Subscribers" tab (left-hand navigator)

On the Manage list members page, navigate to the "Add Subscribers" field and provide the new subscriber's email address in the “Email address:” field

Select (check) the “Quiet (don’t send welcome email)” checkbox

Select "Add" to complete the process.

Navigate to "Subscriber Table" to verify the new subscriber's email address has been added.

Manually-added user will display "subscribed" instead of the "uofi>bus-..."(i.) 

The number of Subscribers should also have increased (ii.)

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Keywords:
sympa, mass mail, subscribers 
Doc ID:
146927
Owned by:
Tim G. in UI Gies College of Business
Created:
2024-12-12
Updated:
2025-06-18
Sites:
UI Gies College of Business