Mailing list software recommendation?

[D Uhlman]

At our ISP (AndThen Hosting, hosts the plug site) we have been thrilled 
using the qmail/ezmlm packages available from qmailtoaster.clikka.com . 
Has a web interface for managing boxes, mailing lists, etc, very easy.

We use a tremendous number of opensource/free software and are rarely 
"thrilled" with most packages. I am thrilled with what we have be able 
to do with this.

Even if you dont want to go with the whole qmail toaster, I will give 
high acclaim for ezmlm and have become vastly preferential to it over 
mailman. Note that as an ISP we may not match your need set exactly, 
YMMV. Make sure you get the ezmlm-idx software as it includes many 
"necessary" patches and features. You can also check out namazu and 
mhonarc to automatically build searchable archives from ezmlm lists.

Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50km Inc.

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.
> 
> 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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