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Mailing List Software
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:15 am
by patrikG
I'm currently looking for a non-critical mailing-list application with features
- automated management (e.g. "unsubscribe" etc. via email)
- mailing list management interface
- message-relaying
- attachments of up to 1MB
- multiple mailing-lists
Nothing complicated, but things like PHPList.com won't do it as it's one-way communication. Message-relaying is crucial.
If you know of any software (commercial or non-commercial) be it written in PHP or Perl - please let me know.
Thanks,
patrikG
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:45 am
by crazytopu
"Broadcast HTML" - They use it in my company.
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:54 am
by patrikG
Thanks for the info, but what has to be an absolutely crucial feature is message relaying, i.e. anyone person on the mailing list can email the entire mailing-list.
Broadcast HTML, unfortunately, doesn't allow for that.
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 7:12 am
by feyd
Listserv?
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:07 pm
by patrikG
Listserv looks great, if anything it appears to be almost "too" powerful ("with great power, Peter, comes great...") if that is possible.
The reason I'm saying "too powerful" is that it's for a semi IT-literate guy who can happily write the odd Perl or PHP script, but I wouldn't want to throw anything beyond standard customization at him.
Am just checking out google-groups which, after an initial quick round of testing, seems to have the features required (plus it's free).
Thanks
patrikG
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:37 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Google groups is pretty nifty in that you can send an email to the group address and it posts it to the group as well as sending it to the parties in the group. You can also log in to the group page and post a message directly there which gets mailed to the group. I think Yahoo offers something similar as well.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:14 pm
by pickle
Mailman is what my university uses. I've never personally dealt with it, but the folks who made the decision to use it generally don't make wrong decisions.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 5:17 pm
by Ambush Commander
Mailman is python, though. It is the de facto open-source mailing standards, of course.