At 1:32 PM +0100 2004/04/30, Rob Hackney wrote:

 Does the silence on this mean
 A) you don't approve of the question
 B) it's a dumb question and I need to read a bit more?
 C) no-one can help

B. Start with <http://www.list.org/docs.html>.


                                        I need the program to do the
 following: send out html formatted emails to a list of subscribed users
 disallow replies to the from email address.

Mailman doesn't send out HTML-formatted e-mail. If you send HTML-formatted e-mail to the list, and the list isn't configured to strip or convert that, then the HTML formatted e-mail will be sent on to the list recipients. But in terms of the e-mail that Mailman itself generates (mostly announcements that they've been subscribed/unsubscribed, password reminders, etc...), it's not HTML-formatted.


create an auto unsub manage bounces/ non-deliverables

No problem.


 I'd like to be able to track the messages tho this isn't strictly
 necessary.

Track the messages? In what way? There are the logs as to which message-ids have come in when from what sender, and when the system was able to transmit the outgoing messages to the next hop for the given recipient(s), but I'm not sure just exactly what you're looking for.


 I have told my boss that I think postfix + mailman can do this (or at
 least the main parts)

Could be. Your list of requirements is not really very detailed, so it's hard to tell.


 Am I right?  I've just installed mailman and am currently configuring
 and testing it but don't want to waste my time if it is not suitable. My
 main concern is sending out the emails and making sure that this isn't
 an address to reply to.

Mailman is capable of setting up announce-only lists. See the FAQ (link from the page mentioned above).


 One other thing:  this will need to work on a network which currently
 has an ms exch server handling out two domains; dom1.co.uk dom2.co.uk It
 is vital that the email comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is
 currently an exch mailbox. thanks

I'm not sure how this would interact with Exchange. Certainly, you can configure your mail server to generate outgoing mail and claim that it is any other machine on the planet that you like, but if the IP address for which those messages are coming from doesn't match the name that you claim, then a lot of mail servers will reject your mail as being "spoofed" -- which it is.


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