# Mailman-setup
which would present me with a site administrator GUI that would enable me to do everything else. Is there such a thing? I don't want to have to bother with running commands from the shell, as I am not a good typist and my vision is poor, so I really would like a GUI for almost everything that will save me from typos.
My needs are very simple. The machine is not open to the world for access. I won't be having anyone on the Internet subscribing. For the time being, it will be used entirely as an internal tool, and initially I will subscribe users. Later, I might want to let them subscribe themselves, but for now it will be used only for announcements to various lists of recipients, going out through any of the MTAs we have running, such as postfix, sendmail, or any of the others that came with Fedora Core 2, which I see are running now in background, although we aren't using them, but using a remote ISP for mail service. We will, however, want to send email out to the Internet. We don't have our own local domain, so I will need to reconfigure our sender address from localhost.localdomain for outgoing email.
So all I will want to do, initially, is have the capability to select a recipient list, select a file containing the message body, select the Sender field, select the Reply-to field, enter the Subject, perhaps select a file or files to be the attachments, and hit Enter to begin sending, with perhaps a time delay between messages to avoid overflowing my outbound mail server, whether I use a local server or a remote one.
Can anyone provide or point me to simple instructions I can use without spending hours or days of study. I just want a quick setup and ease of use for the moment. Maybe later I will want to use other capabilities as I develop the need and learn how to use them.
I might also suggest that documentation like this should be prominently offered on the website. I can't be the only one with this need.
I also note that on the page for the list archive, some of the years offered are like 2024 and 2006. Surely your archive is not organized by the date set on the sending machine, but by the date email is actually sent.
In case anyone suspects this is for sending spam, it it not. It is in support of various non-profit organizations, such as http://www.constitution.org , and mainly for things like meeting announcements, press releases, and the like. I have examined the other tools I have, like Evolution, but it doesn't seem to give me the control or expansion capabilities I want (like being able to change my identity from localhost.localdomain).
-- Jon
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