Office 365 Groups vs Distribution Lists: A Comprehensive Comparison
Distribution lists and Office 365 groups are useful features that are widely used by Microsoft Office 365 users. If you’re a new Office 365 user, this blog post comparing and contrasting distribution lists and Office 365 groups is for you.
A distribution list is a list of email addresses that can be used to send emails to multiple recipients without entering each destination email address manually. The name of a distribution list looks like a usual email address name. For example, you can create a distribution list called developers@domain.com. This list can contain multiple email addresses of developers (developer0@domain.com, developer1@domain.com, developer2@domain.com, etc.). If you need to notify all developers about changes in a new application version, entering the email addresses of each developer would be time-consuming and tedious. Instead, you can enter the name of a distribution list (developers@domain.com) as the destination address and the email will be sent to all the developers in the list. A distribution list is sometimes called a contact group, distribution group or an Outlook group.
