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mailing list software...

Just wondering what people think is the best software for running mailing lists. Yahoogroups is good, but we want to host our own lists.  Preferably on Linux.

I've heard mailman http://www.list.org/ is popular ? Any others people can recommend ?

stan
Monday, November 10, 2003

Mailman is a pretty nice piece of software, in fact about 90% of the lists I am on use it. It's written in python, performance is ok (I've never done high volume lists myself with it, so I can't comment too much), it's easy to setup, very easy to maintain and there is a large community which offers support for it.

fw
Monday, November 10, 2003

Enemies of Carlotta, despite its name, is a pretty good and simple mailing list manager written by Lars Wirzenius of Linux fame. It attempts to replicate the functionality of ezmlm without its complex setup and management. EoC is developed in Python like Mailman, but unlike Mailman it's reasonably small so extending it is not too difficult (provided you know enough Python).

http://liw.iki.fi/liw/eoc/

ludoo
Monday, November 10, 2003

Listserv is decent.  http://www.lsoft.com/

Mike
Monday, November 10, 2003

Lyris

Li-fan Chen
Monday, November 10, 2003

How about an alternative to Yahoo Groups? I have never used them because of all the advertising they put in.
Is there any other good free maillist out there?

Dimitri.
Monday, November 10, 2003

Qmail's EZMLM add-on

Tom Vu
Monday, November 10, 2003

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