If you bring up a box with RedHat 7.2, I'll be happy to secure the box for you and to do the initial setup of your mailman. Call me a sucker, but it sounds like a good cause.
DSL has high latencies and contention so it makes for a bad network connection for a server, still if the traffic is low and your ISP has some good mailservers, Mailman should work. You will, however, need a static IP or DNS address. Folks are going to drop off Mail to your server, so the mail will have to find the server across the internet. It cannot do that unless you have either a static IP or you subscribe to a dynamic hosting site which updates your DNS everytime your ip address changes. And example of such a service is HN.net (this is free for folks using opensource os'es... or at least it used to be.) Also, a UPS really helps. Take care. Let me know if you need my help, Jon Carnes -----Original Message----- From: Don Cooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] Need help for decisions To All I hope it is OK to post something like this on this list. I have about 20 prostate cancer mailing lists (presently on Yahoo) and probably the best prostate cancer web site there is at http://www.cooleyville.com/cancer . Everything in non commercial and I have been funding the whole one man operation out of my pocket. It is about to get expensive. One of my lists is on Lsoft and is presently 850 members. The cost on their Home programs around $150 per month. Now when I get to 1000 members this cost will triple - can't afford that. The web site and the mailing lists are too valuable to let go as many men around the world have depended on the advise they receive. Looks like I have three options: 1. To find a web hosting that would allow all the mailing lists at a decent price. Have been unable to find that. 2. I do have DSL at home and could make up a computer to host my own mailing lists but I am not skilled enough to set up RedHat (or other) and install Mailman without some help. Since I am in Silicon Valley help should be available but can't find anyone around here with expertise with Mailman. Don't know if ADSL would handle the load. 1 list at 30 messages a day (max of 80) 2 lists at 10 a day and the balance at 1 or 2 a day. 3. Find someone who would be willing to put these on their server as a donation to the cause or at a small cost. Maybe a host that I could not find. What would really be nice (but certainly not required) would be the ability to have my own domain name for a mailing list. Maybe someone out there who has prostate cancer (I am a patient) or has family who has prostate cancer may understand where I am coming from. Any other ideas? I apologize if I am in error posting here but am getting desperate <grin>. Don Have a PCa Question? Don't want to ask a Group Go to http://askphp.org A Team of Patients will help. Don Cooley, call 408 268-6400 if I can help! Web site - http://prostate-help.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
