Campus Listservs


The University will maintain a listserv utility for the purpose of facilitating communication among members of the CCSU community.  Click here to review the University Listserv Policy.  The following instructions pertain to the four main listservs on campus: 

  1. students@listserv.ccsu.edu - for students to send messages to all students subscribed to this list.

  2. academicusers@listserv.ccsu.edu - to send messages to all faculty members subscribed.

  3. adminusers@listserv.ccsu.edu - to send messages to all other subscribed administrative staff.

  4. campusforum@listserv.ccsu.edu - to send messages to the above three groups at once.  

How to Subscribe

The above listservs will be preloaded at the beginning of each academic year.  To subscribe after the preloading, follow these instructions:

  1. Send a blank email (with nothing in the subject or body of the message) to the listserv using the above listed addresses from a CCSU email account, prefixing the address with "Join-".  For example, to join the student listserv, write an email message and address it to:     
    Join-students@listserv.ccsu.edu

  2. Send the message.  You will receive a message prompting you to reply to that message verifying your intention of subscribing.

How to Unsubscribe

If you do not wish to receive messages sent to the listserv you are in, you have the ability to opt out of receiving those messages.

  1. Send a blank email (with nothing in the subject or body of the message) to that listserv you wish to opt out of from your CCSU email account, this time prefixing the address with "Leave-".  For example, to leave the campus forum listserv, send a message to
    Leave-campusforum@listserv.ccsu.edu

  2. You should then receive an email confirming that you have unsubscribed from that listserv.

Posting a Message to a Listserv

When you send a message to the listserv, it is delivered to all subscribers of that listserv, however, you will not receive a copy of any messages you send.  To send a message to a listserv, simply send an email message from your CCSU email account to the listserv you are a member of.  Those addresses are:  students@listserv.ccsu.edu, academicusers@listserv.ccsu.edu, adminusers@listserv.ccsu.edu and campusforum@listserv.ccsu.edu.

Digest Subscription

By choosing digest mode, you would receive only one email from the listserv you are subscribed to a day.  A listserv digest takes all the messages sent to the listserv in a 24 hour period and compiles them into one message.

Turning Digest Mode On

  1. Send a blank email (with nothing in the subject or body of the message) to that listserv you wish to receive in digest form from your CCSU email account, this time prefixing the address with "Digest-".  For example, to get the digest form of the messages sent to the campus forum listserv, send a message to Digest-campusforum@listserv.ccsu.edu

  2. You should then receive an email confirming the change in your subscription.

Turning Digest Mode Off

  1. Send a blank email (with nothing in the subject or body of the message) to that listserv you wish to change from digest form back to individual mail messages from your CCSU email account, this time prefixing the address with "Mail-".  For example, to change the campus forum listserv, send a message to Mail-campusforum@listserv.ccsu.edu

  2. You should then receive an email confirming the change in your subscription.

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