The List Server is mainly used to provide electronic mailing list in the software applications it is being used with the legacy systems  software also which will allow the user to send the email to the list of persons, those users which are subscribed into this service.
 

It is also called as electronic mailing list that will use the service of the email for the information distribution to the users making the request for it.

It mainly includes :

• a list of email addresses

• the people ("subscribers") receiving mail at those addresses

• the publications (email messages) sent to those addresses

• a reflector, which is a single email address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers.

Types

Announcement list

One type of electronic mailing list is an announcement list, which is used primarily as a one-way conduit of information and may only be "posted to" by selected people. This may also be referred to by the term newsletter. Newsletter and promotional emailing lists are employed in various sectors as parts of direct marketing campaigns.

Discussion list

Another type of electronic mailing list is a discussion list, in which any subscriber may post. On a discussion list, a subscriber uses the mailing list to send messages to all the other subscribers, who may answer in similar fashion.