SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
Configuring Email Support During Site Creation
Once email support is enabled in Central Administration at the top-level site, any subsites created under the portal site will inherit that support. To use Distribution Lists with SharePoint, enable the SharePoint Directory Management Service in Central Administration as well. If these conditions are satisfied and you choose to create a new group when creating a new subsite, the following actions occur:
You will be offered the option of creating an email distribution list and the opportunity to set an email address for that list.
Any users you add to the group are automatically added to another group called Members and also added to the distribution list. Any changes made to either Members or the distribution list will synchronize.
During the site creation process, both the teamsite discussion board and calendar will have email support enabled and be automatically assigned email addresses.
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The format for those two email addresses is:
These email addresses will be included in the distribution list, and whenever you receive an invitation to a meeting via Outlook that information will be sent to the calendar and archived in the discussion board.
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