> 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 ;)
Hmmm, what do you mean exactly? You mean that the lists' owners can't
approve messages, etc., via email? Or are there system tasks that you
feel need an email interface? Which are these?
> > Mailman is coming along nicely and works well with exim. The archiver
> > is marginal - I keep considering moving to a MIME capable archiver.
I don't really understand. Do you mean that the archiver doesn't
handle attachments? Details would help me a lot.
Thanks so much!
Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
eVote(R) - online polling software for email lists
http://www.deliberate.com
marilyn@???
+1 650 965-7121 (USA)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Dave C. wrote:
>
> 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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