From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 10 10:11:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507EF37B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:11:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g3AHB4a39625 ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id TAA39246 ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:11:04 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailing list comparisons? Message-ID: <20020410191104.F26749@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: "Jeremy C. Reed" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from reed@reedmedia.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:44:22AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeremy C. Reed said on Apr 10, 2002 at 09:44:22: > I am looking for a mailing list: > > - manage via email (web-based management not required) > > - users aren't forced to use a password to unsubscribe > > - detect hard bounces and unsubscribe as needed > > - has a reasonable good track record of non-security issues. > > - lightweight, but perl is okay (that doesn't make sense :) I don't know of such a webpage, but - If you don't mind using qmail as your mta -- and especially if you're already using it -- I definitely like ezmlm (at the risk of starting another DJB flamefest). It does all of the above, very easy to set up (a one line command, though you have to read the docs to issue the appropriate command), and you can set up the mailing list as a regular user -- no root interference required except in setting up the software itself. In fact, you can set up several lists as the same user (say, list-one@host, list-two@host etc for user list). And of course you have DJB's well known assurances on security and reliability (I don't think he offers a guarantee though). All commands are email-based: you send email to list-one-subscribe@... to subscribe, list-one-unsubscribe@.... to unsubscribe, and to each you'll get a confirmation mail which you need to reply to, but no passwords. It may be possible to set it up without requiring confirmation for subscribes/unsubscribes -- it all works with .qmail files so one can manipulate those directly and do lots of things. ISTR it now works with postfix too. Bare-bones version, but good enough for many purposes, mail/ezmlm in the ports: http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html Useful add-ons (moderation, remote administration etc) available as mail/ezmlm-idx in the ports: http://www.ezmlm.org/ - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message