# Updates and Mailing List

Each Compliance Portal has its own mailing list. Visitors can subscribe to receive compliance updates, and portal managers can add or remove subscribers from the console.

## Manage subscribers

Open the portal, then select **Mailing List**. The subscriber list shows each person's name, email address, subscription status, and subscription date.

- **Pending** subscribers have not completed confirmation.
- **Confirmed** subscribers receive updates.
- Removing a subscriber stops future sends to that address.

Use **Add subscriber** when a person has asked to join outside the portal. Do not add people without an appropriate basis for contacting them.

## Create and send an update

1. Open **Mailing List**, then select the updates view.
2. Create an update and enter a title and body.
3. Review the draft for confidential or customer-specific information.
4. Select **Send**, review the confirmation, and confirm the send.

Sending queues the update for delivery. A sent update becomes read-only; create a new update if you need to issue a correction. Delivery also requires working outbound email configuration.

## Visitor experience

Sent updates appear in the portal's **Updates** section. Signed-in visitors can choose **Subscribe to updates** from the user menu and unsubscribe later. A subscription affects email delivery only; visitors can still read published updates without subscribing.

## Automate mailing-list work

The [Compliance Portal MCP tools](/docs/developers/api/mcp/tools/catalog/compliance-portal#getMailingList) can list subscribers, create and edit drafts, and queue sends. Treat `sendMailingListUpdate` as an external side effect and require an explicit review step before calling it.