Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:26:14 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for a Newsletter Mail Program Message-ID: <20000519182613.B5984@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190525490.96642-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>; from jim@freeze.org on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 05:32:47AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005190525490.96642-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
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> I am looking for a program that will: Check out ezmlm (/usr/ports/mail/ezmlm, /usr/ports/mail/ezmlm-idx). It only works with qmail, but I think it does everything you want. > 1) Allow people to subscribe to a list via email, but will authenticate > through a mail response. Does that. > 2) Allow people to unsubscribe from the list. Does that. > 2) Will allow one (and only one) person to send email to the group It has a "moderation" option ie posts to the list will need to go through a moderator. I haven't tried that, though. You can also allow subscriber-only posts, or posts by anybody. > 3) Do some nice things such as > 3a) Check for duplicate names in list If you try subscribing a second time, it tells you that you were already there, and remain subscribed. Of course, it won't know if it's the same person with a different email address. > 3b) Allow customizeable functionality for people who reply to the list Not sure what you mean by that, esp. as you only want one person to mail the group. But it does nice things like automatically reject mails to the list with an empty subject or "subscribe" /"unsubscribe" subject line, which would be useful on the freebsd lists, I sometimes think. Give it a try, and imo, it's worth switching to qmail for this reason alone. Setting up a fully functional mailing list with ezmlm is literally a one-line command, and you can do it under your own account if you like, you don't even need root access to set up a mailing list. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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