Mailing list software

Paul Michael Reilly pmr at pajato.com
Mon May 22 15:38:36 UTC 2006


Michael Fleming <mfleming at enlartenment.com> writes:

 > Organization: Lacey Turner's Fan Club
 > MIME-Version: 1.0
 > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
 > 
 > Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
 > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:43:44AM -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
 > >> Is there a consensus on what mailing list software to use on Fedora?
 > >> Left to my own devices I would probably use MajorDomo but figured it
 > >> was worth asking if a another choice might be better.  
 > > 
 > 
 > If you have Extras amongst your configured repos, there's also mlmmj or 
 > enemies-of-carlotta, both of which are available for FC3-rawhide and 
 > quite usable (disclaimer: I am the package maintainer and a happy user 
 > of mlmmj. It does have some web-interface functionality, which I've 
 > added in the documentation/contrib sections)
 > 
 > >> A web interface would be nice.
 > > 
 > > Mailman is probably the most logical choice; it is part of Core, thus is
 > > supported with security updates. It has a web interface, too.
 > > 
 > 
 > See also: http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailman.html :-) It does raise some 
 > interesting points to consider before leaping head first into it.

Excellent post.  This was fascinating.  I expect that Jamie's comments
spawned an interesting thread.  I'll have to hunt for it.

Any other Fedora User who prefers Smartlist care to address the
current state of Mailman vs Smartlist?

Thanks,

-pmr




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