The only disadvantage I've found with MailMan is its lack of an
email-based administrative system - it is web only. Of course, I havent
checked the latest version recently, its possible they've added this ;)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> 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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