Re: [Exim] A recommended Mailing list manager for Exim?

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Autor: Nigel Metheringham
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A: Roger Burton West
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] A recommended Mailing list manager for Exim?
roger@??? said:
> I favour smartlist, mainly for its automated bounce handling; it
> collaborates very cleanly with exim. I haven't tried mailman, but I
> gather it's reasonably capable; also, it has a web interface, which
> smartlist lacks.


Exim.org used to run with smartlist. It worked, but always felt
painful, although was relatively maintenance free once working. Bounce
handling was marginal - Mailman is now considerably better. Archiving
is by mbox, any web archiving would have to be handled separately.
Subscription confirmation used to be a separate patch.

A recipe for automatic list handling with smartlist is hidden in the
FAQ somewhere - this is the configuration that used to run on exim.org.

Mailman is coming along nicely and works well with exim. The archiver
is marginal - I keep considering moving to a MIME capable archiver.
Writing custom bounce handlers is easy, although currently
unnecessary... however someone will come up with a bounce set that
defeats it again soon.

> There's quite a bit of material on exim.org, though some of it is
> fairly deeply buried.


3 places to look:-

  - HOWTO type documentation (linked from the docs page)
    http://www.exim.org/docs.html
  - References in the FAQ (also linked from the docs page)
  - Mailing list references - see the indexer at
    http://www.exim.org/maillist.html


    Nigel.
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