Mailing list software recommendation?

[David Mandala]

Install mailman on the web server.

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 23:24, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Situation:
> 
> I'm looking for mailing list software to help out (at least initially) a 
> PR employee.  Here's the situation:
> 
> The companies current mail setup is standardized on using 
> Outlook/Exchange.  Currently the PR employee maintains a distribution 
> list in her Outlook Contacts.  The problem is, the list is having to be 
> manually maintained and has grown larger than Outlook allows for a 
> single distribution list.
> 
> I brought up the idea of using a mailing list system to handle this load.
> 
> There are two possible points where the mailing list could be run.  A 
> company is hosting a frontend email server for so all inbound mail has 
> to go through it before coming to our exchange server.  This is running 
> qmail on Linux.  The other point this could be run at is on the web 
> server which also has an instance of qmail installed on it.
> 
>  From what I've gathered, the requirements for the list software are:
> 
> All mail must look like it is coming from the PR employees email address
> All mail must seem to be going to just the recipient (makes the email 
> look like a personal mail)
> Only certain email addresses should be able to send mail to the list 
> (restricted to moderators, not just subscribers)
> 
> The problems:
> 
> If the software runs on the frontend email server, then it isn't under 
> our control.
> 
> If the software runs on the web server, then it can't receive mail 
> itself for the mailing list software since all mail for our domain goes 
> through the remote frontend servers which are only set to forward to the 
> Exchange system.
> 

> Also, due to limitations in Exchange (or so I'm led to believe) it won't 
> send emails for an address in its domain out to a remote box, so the PR 
> employee (and potentially other groups that might want to use a system 
> like this) can't just create an email to the list and get it to work.
> 

The above is completely incorrect. Exchange can indeed forward selected
mail address' to a different machine. As to how it's done I don't know
but I know it works.


> e.g. Exchange controls domain.com.  You can't send an email to 
> maillist@domain.com and have it go to maillist@frontend.com.
> 
> Anyone have some pointers to help out with?  I'd prefer to stick to 
> Free/Open software if that is possible.
> 
> 
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