Nigel wrote:
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> Qmail is the hottest thing around for ease of mailing list handling
It is? Does it auto-unsubscribe based on bounces after a configurable
number of bounces? Does it automatically send any number of info/FAQ
files to new subscribers? Can it filter the body of posts for
keywords and bump them to the owner for approval before posting? Does
it divert posted messages that look like admin requests to the request
address? Does it handle both digest and non-digest lists? Does it
have a per message size limit (large ones bounced to list owner for
approval)? Does it automatically archive postings and provide an
automated email retreival system? Does it maintain more than one list
of addresses that are approved for posting privileges? Can it be
easily configured to do things like prohibit new subscribers from
posting till they have been a member for X weeks/months?
Smartlist, what I use, does all this and more (*). The envelope-from hack
in qmail *IS* very nice. But it's not the be-all and end-all of
making mailing list handling easy. Not by a long shot. The
envelope-from hack would save me about one headache a year. And I
can't afford the thousands of dollars to purchase the bandwidth that
the envelope-from hack requires, so I'll take the one headache a
year. But without Smartlist, I wouldn't run my mailing list at all.
(*) Smartlist has intelligent bounce processing that automatically
handles about 95-99% of all bounces (so that I never even have to
*look* at them). Of the few it doesn't handle, most of these I can
quickly scan and handle in a few seconds. About once a year I get a
bad one that would have benefited from the envelope-from hack. My
list normally has about 3000 readers. It is down to 1500 because I
took it off-line for 3 months, but is growing steadily again.
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Michelle Dick artemis@??? East Palo Alto, CA
