Combining contacts in distribution lists

With distribution lists you can combine arbitrarily many individual contacts into a list and thus simplify and accelerate news mailings to specific groups of people. For example, if you would like to send an E-Mail to all staff members of a department, simply send your communication to the appropriate distribution list instead of to many individual contacts.

In distribution lists, you can combine individual contacts from your personal contact folders as well as from public and/or other users' shared contact folders. Besides these internal contacts you can also add external contacts (which are not managed in Open-Xchange Server) to distribution lists.

Combining internal contacts into distribution lists

Since distribution lists are primarily used for E-Mail, you can include in distribution lists only contacts from your personal contact folders and public and/or other users' shared contact folders whose data contain at least one E-Mail address.