On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 14:41 -0800, David Kaiser wrote: > Mailman can handle 5000+ users, but I am curious what you mean by > "interactive" > list. You mean, you have some lists which are publish-only, i.e. moderated > for > a specific users, and some that allow regular users to post? That is correct. One list would be for publication. Another for discussion, or sharing, like this list.
> > I guess you'd have to define what you mean by "work with Exchange" Our email server here uses Exchange. If I set up a list at [email protected], then the list serve has to be able to work with exchange to access that info and process it. Understand, I haven't read how that is set up. Does the Mailman server act as an MTA to receive mail? Or does it pull it from another system? > > Mailman should work with any mail server that accepts SMTP protocol, but it > does > need that connection to be "localhost", so you'll end up installing a local > MTA, > and end up establishing forwarding rules between your local postfix and the > outbound exchange server, and vice versa. Here is a post (cached) which was > somewhat relevant. > > http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Hj2dDxNwo8AJ:mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-October/022941.html > > Alternatively, if you actually are the admin of your own Exchange server, I'm > guessing you'd be successful running mailman underneath the ActiveState Python > for windows environment, or cygwin, and use the local exchange server. Unfortunately _I_ am not the admin, so it is really dependent upon the willingness of/pressure applied upon the admin. I am simply pushing the project through. > > Mailman packages also usually install Pipermail, which is the web-archiving > tool, which you see here: http://909linux.org/pipermail/909linux/ if you wish > to have web-based mailman archives. > > You can configure a list to not have archiving, etc... on a list by list > basis. > > > > Joel Brauer wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > What better place to ask about mailing lists than on a mailing list? > > > > Anyway, I am looking for mailing list software to send out several > > newsletters and also setup some interactive lists. The system would > > need to handle at least 5000 users on a list. I know we use Mailman for > > this list. Is that the recommended product? Does it work with > > Exchange? Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux Thank you, -- Joel Brauer Manager - IS Communications and Web Technologies Loma Linda University [email protected] cell: 909-534-1934 pager: [email protected]
