I have to disagree about Majordomo being difficult. It has good docs and
they are easy to follow, I followed them and set a list up the other day
right from scratch with no probs, incl. archives and digests.
Howard.
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Rundle wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for open source mailing list software and was wondering
> > what people recommend. (Obviously the software that runs this list
> > for a start ;-)
>
> I think the one that runs this list is Majordomo (but Anthony woul
> dknow for sure). I wouldn't recommend it unless you are already using
> it. If you do have installed and working but find it obscure to setup
> properly there is something called `MajorCool' which implements a web
> interface to Majordomo.
>
> I'd recommend MailMan <URL: http://www.list.org/> if you are setting
> up new mailling lists. It only has a web interface, which can be a
> problem. Another problem is the mail archiving portion (pipermail) is
> very limited compared to MHonArc.
>
> Two other options are Smartlist and qmail ezlm neither of which I've
> had extensive experience. I have tried Smartlist but it requires users
> to have an account on the machine so they can administer mailling
> lists. For my purposes that is bad since I run mailling lists which
> are totally administered by people who do not.
>
> I think I installed qmail ezlm once but got sidetracked and ended up
> deleting it. Someone else should be able to give their experience with
> it though.
>
> Anand
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