On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 08:51:38AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:45:16PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > I am looking to set up a mailing list manager on a NetBSD server. > > > > The member count is more or less fixed between 300 to 350 and isn't going > > to grow beyond. > > > > The email archive should be browsable and searchable through a web > > interface. ("searchable" is less critical of the two requirements as even > > google search can be used to search through the archive.) > > > > I need the email storage to be in text format so as to be able to write > > tools of my own, on the server, to analyze the emails (say to grep > > patterns or even to do NLP). > > After going through the nuances of some available solutions, I wonder: > > - Do I really need a specialized mail manager software or can I just use > .forward (or procmail) to bounce the mails to registered members?
man aliases list-name:include:/path/to/file/with/aliases look into allow_mail_to_commands and allow_mail_to_files for postfix so that you can also pipe it to a script that saves it in some db. > > - I do not need automated subscribe / unsubscribe, this being for a closed > group of size not exceeding 300/350. Manual registration, with very > occasional changes is fine. > > - I need "member-only" restriction for posting to the list email id, which > I think procmail can manage. I don't use postfix but I'm sure there is a way to restrict this with some sort of access map. Edgar > > - I do need a web archiver with thread view etc. (and ability to write > text pattern searches of my own on the mail texts), for which there > might be alternatives that do just that - archiving. (E.g. HyperKitty > which mailman uses, which can be used standalone also.) > > Would appreciate views on whether I am missing something, if I do not use > a proper mailing list software for above requirement. > > Mayuresh > >