Student Lists

About

A facility is available for academic staff to send electronic mail to all students enrolled in a particular course or subject.

Mailing lists for this purpose are generated on a nightly basis on the central mail servers using data provided by Student Administration. These lists are comprised of all students enrolled in a given course or subject who have generated an account for themselves on the central student email system.

Students can only send emails to the lists for courses and subjects in which they are enrolled.

How To Use

To send mail to a list, simply use an appropriate address of the form:

Subjects:

• s-<subjectcode>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au
• s-<subjectcode>-<semester>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au

Courses:

• c-<coursecode>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au
• c-<coursecode>-<yearlevel>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au
• c-<coursecode>-<stream>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au
• c-<coursecode>-<stream>-<yearlevel>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au

Departments:

• d-<deptcode>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au
• d-<deptcode>-<courselevel>@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au

Information about the use of these lists can be found on the Student Management Services Intranet (password protected).

Staff members will need to send the mail from their central email accounts, ending in @unimelb.edu.au.

Usage Examples

For example, mailing to:

s-136101@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au

would send mail to all students enrolled in the subject '136-101' ('History of Astronomy') who have generated an account on a student mail server.

Similarly,

c-012@studentlists.unimelb.edu.au

would send mail to all students enrolled in the course '012' who have generated an account for themselves.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why can't I send mail to a list?

The lists have a number of restrictions on who can post and what messages can be posted to prevent their abuse or to stop them being spammed.

The restrictions are:

1. Only email addresses ending in unimelb.edu.au can post.

   You should you use your central email account address as your outgoing "From" address when you send email.

2. Message size is limited to 200KB.

3. Messages must have a (non-blank) subject.

4. Messages must score less than 5 stars in our anti-spam checking.

5. Messages must not contain a virus or a blocked file type.

   Block file types are those ending in one of these extensions:

   ade adp app asd asf asx bas bat chm cmd com cpl crt dll exe fxp hlp hta hto inf ini ins isp js lib lnk mdb mde msc msi msp mst ocx pcd pif prg reg scr sct sh shb shs sys url vb vbe vbs vcs vxd wmd wms wmz wsc wsf wsh {any_text}

Q: When I send mail to a list, why do some enrolled students not receive the mail?

Only those students who are enrolled in the course/subject and have generated an account for themselves on the central student email service will receive the mail you send.

Q: Why are enrolled students with accounts not receiving the mail?

Students who have forwarded their email to external sites may not reliably receive mail.

Students who have exceeded their email storage quota will not be able to receive new messages.

Q: Why do I get bounce messages saying the mail was undeliverable?

You will receive a returned bounce message for every student to whom the mail could not be delivered. The mail is still delivered correctly to the rest of the students.