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Re: ezmlm-idx

Subject: Re: ezmlm-idx
From: Bennett Todd (betrahul.net)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 19:02:01 CST

2000-01-29-19:09:00 Terje Elde:
> Have anyone got a recommendation for another mailing list manager
> that fits nicely under postfix?

A hard question to ask alone, since the offered feature sets vary so
widely.

I've dabbled with a few, but the only one I've set up from scratch
and actively supported for a long time is Mailman
<URL:http://www.list.org/>.

It has OK features for automating some routine tasks; the users
really like the web interface; the archives work fine and
painlessly; and the features it doesn't have are, so far, ones I'm
comfortable not having. And it works painlessly, nothing special
needed, with Postfix.

It's written primarily in Python, which I don't really know all that
fluently (I lean more towards Perl when I'm writing code) but it's
quite effortless to read and understand the code, and to use the
code to whack on the data structures from an interactive python
prompt, on those rare occasions when you want to do something
automatically over all lists which isn't offered through the shell
interface.

Aside from Mailman (and the qmail-only ezmlm), the other major MLMs
seem to be Smartlist[1], a lightweight and efficient MLM associated
with procmail; Listar[2], and of course the venerable Majordomo[3].
Listar and Majordomo both place more emphasis on the email interface
and less on the web interface; that made it an easy choice in my
setting. Other settings will differ.

-Bennett

[1] <URL:http://www.procmail.org/>
[2] <URL:http://www.listar.org/>
[3] <URL:http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/>

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