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How is it possible that my college sends email to "branch_name@collegedomain.com" and it is sent to all students of that branch? There are several emails like "year_batch@collegedomain.com" and it reaches all students of that year's batch with different college emails for e.g. "name1@collegedomain.com", "name2@collegedomain.com" etc. How is it possible and how to implement this?
Pera
Posted 2019-10-31T03:53:00.687
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How is it possible and how to implement this?
Rereading your question, is seems likely that automatic forwarding is a possibility. In case it matters, the automatic forwarding I mention where a single address is forwarded to multiple recipients may be called a distribution list or possibly referred to as an electronic mailing list. Distribution lists can be a feature of email clients or (in some cases) email servers. Electronic mailing lists may use dedicated software.
It's also possible to "roll your own" software or script. For instance, one such solution might be to use Python with imaplib and either smtplib or a combination of subprocess with a command line mailer to automatically download and redistribute emails sent to a particular server. Several of the electronic mailing list program entries in the Wikipedia link above use a similar idea (i.e. they are based around scripting languages).
Anaksunaman
Posted 2019-10-31T03:53:00.687
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@Anaksunaman yes, I too believe. Can you suggest some software as I couldn't find one. To make it more clear, I would add that when I receive an email from the college, the receivers address is not mine but "branch_name@collegedomain.com" and others of the same branch also receive it. ALSO, is it possible that instead of a software, "branch_name@collegedomain.com" represents all emails and anyone in the world sending an email to this email will send emails to all the students of that branch. – Pera – 2019-10-31T06:05:51.797
@Anaksunaman it means maybe the college has created it's own program and email lists and distributed to dean's and professors so that they can send these bulk mails. – Pera – 2019-10-31T10:23:33.787
That is certainly a possibility. – Anaksunaman – 2019-10-31T10:41:27.010