Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:57:02 -0500 (EST) From: jim <jim@jwweeks.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fabrizio=20Ravazzini?= <freefabri@yahoo.it> Cc: Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news letter server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202120954110.449-100000@veager.jwweeks.com> In-Reply-To: <20020212081211.43919.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>
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Why not use majordomo, and simply send subscribe requests to /dev/null? A password protected script for adding names should be easy, or you could upload the list by hand. Regards, -- Jim Weeks On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > Hi, no, the problem is that this firm wants a custom > news letter, they want to subscribe for example a > thousand e-mail addresses at a time, then send them > one news letter. > Then if they want to unsubscribe or add some addresses > to the list they must be indipendent, we do not want > to make their work. > So, they want a ready-to-use solution, such as a web > page to put all the addresses of their subscribers, > send one mail to the list on our server and then our > machine rat-ta-ta-ta-tat shoots them to the > subscribers. > I think will be difficult to find a solution. ups! > regards > --- Colin Campbell <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au> ha > scritto: > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > > > > > Hello all, is there any software to build a news > > > letter server that can be integrated with qmail? > > > We'd like to provide this type of service for some > > > firms which have a large recipient of email > > addresses > > > to send them news letters a couple of time a > > month. > > > We tried to use the ezmlm mailing list server but > > is > > > difficult to let our clients subscribe a big > > number of > > > subscribers. Also Ezmlm-web seems a mess and > > offering > > > a web-access subscribe form is a lack in security > > also > > > because a malicious person can subscribe people to > > > make spam with our machine. > > > Any ideas? > > > > Why don't you have your clients subscribe just one > > address each and then > > use their local mail system as an "exploder"? That > > allows the local mail > > admins to control who gets what and also > > significantly reduces the amount > > of mail leaving your mail server(s) and entering > > theirs. The one down side > > of this is you can't control submissions to > > subscribers only unless you do > > it on a domain-only basis because most of the > > readers won't be subscribed > > individually. Being a newsletter rather than a > > mailing list, user > > submissions may not be an issue. > > > > Colin > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Dillo con una cartolina! > http://it.greetings.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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