From kragen@dnaco.net Tue Sep 22 09:22:17 1998 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:22:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen X-Sender: kragen@pike To: systalk@ml.org Subject: Re: [ST] mailing list software recommendation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 2074 Status: O X-Status: On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Daniel Reed wrote: > I, myself, recently converted narnia from sendmail to qmail. I had been > using sendmail on narnia for several years, so it was no easy changeover, > but nevertheless everything is (read, appears to be) operating smoothly. I had been using sendmail on gentle for a couple of years, but I hadn't done anything unusual with it. I switched to qmail very quickly and easily. > I only brought that up because one of the primary reasons I ditched > sendmail and installed qmail was so I could use ezmlm (see > http://www.ezmlm.org/), which is, in my humble opinion, is the best MLM > available. I agree. Here are some of the advantages ezmlm+qmail has over majordomo+sendmail: - Much faster deliveries. - Supposedly, more reliability. I don't have enough data to tell if this is really true or not. - Better security. You can't subscribe ezmlm lists to each other, and you can't subscribe someone else to a mailing list unless you can read the confirmation message. (Majordomo tries to do this and fails.) - Automatic archiving. - Automatic intelligent bounce handling -- enough bounces over a long enough time will remove someone from the list, but a small number of bounces will result in notification of which mails had bounced being sent to the person who failed to receive them. Here are some things I'd like to see out-of-the-box with ezmlm: - Moderated mailing lists. - Mailing lists with approval required to subscribe. These two things are quite easy to accomplish with ezmlm, though, by changing one or more of the .qmail files. Kragen -- Kragen Sitaker The sages do not believe that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. -- Wang Yang-Ming