Bulk Communications
Texas A&M provides a variety of email services to communicate with large groups. Each tool has its own audience and purpose. Email sent from these systems should comply with the guidelines set forth by Google and Yahoo outlined in the FAQ.
Bulk Mail
The Bulk Email Request System provides a convenient way to request an email distribution to a specific group of recipients within the Texas A&M University community. All faculty, staff and students may opt-in to the list(s). The Bulk Email service moved to Division of Marketing and Communication in June 2023. Requirements for sending email notifications through the Bulk Email Service at https://bulkmail.tamu.edu/ can be found on the Division of Marketing and Communication website.
Opt-in recipients to the lists can find more information in this FAQ.
Emma
Emma is a mass email system used to communicate with campus members. Emma is managed by the Division of Marketing & Communications. A separate Emma system is managed by the Texas A&M Foundation to communicate with former students.
Emma accounts are only available to marketing and communications professionals to communicate on behalf of the units they support. For more information, please contact the Digital Experience team
For more information see the service offering page or EmmaHQ
TAMUDirect
TAMUDirect is a service provided by Texas A&M Technology Services that automates the membership of certain Texas A&M Google Groups. TAMUDirect is used for course list and organization lists. A course list is a mailing list created for one or more course sections to allow instructors to communicate to their classes. Organization lists are used by colleges, departments, or divisions to automate mailing list inclusion for staff, faculty, and student lists or combinations thereof.
More information on TAMUDirect see these KB articles TamuDirect - General Use and TAMUDirect - FAQ.
Exchange Distribution Groups
Exchange is a messaging and collaboration service, which features email, calendars, contacts and tasks. One of the resources Exchange supports are distribution groups. These distribution groups are managed by Exchange and departmental email administrators. These distribution groups are designed to be used when all potential members of the mailing list will have an email account in Texas A&M's Exchange service.
For more information on Texas A&M Exchange email see the service offering page.
Google Groups
Google Groups is an email service that uses mailing lists of subscribers. Texas A&M units or groups can create mailing lists for users to join or populate the lists themselves by uploading email addresses. Creation of Texas A&M Google Groups is by-request only.
For more information see the service offering page and this KB Article
Listserv
As of December 2018, new mailing lists are no longer created using the Listserv list management system. All newly requested mailing lists are fulfilled using the Texas A&M Google Groups service.
Listserv is a service designed to create, maintain, and use email mailing lists. It allows someone to email a large number of individuals without manually entering every address for each email. At Texas A&M, Listserv is used to maximize efficiency of communication between students in a class, members of an organization, or a group of individuals.
TAMU Listserv can be accessed at https://listserv.tamu.edu. For more information on TAMU Listserv see this KB article or the Listserv FAQ.