From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 12 8:16:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.siteplus.com (aurora.siteplus.com [66.129.2.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A6D37B41C for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:16:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-216-78-4-211.jan.bellsouth.net (host-216-78-4-211.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.4.211]) by aurora.siteplus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA97062; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:39:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@jwweeks.com) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:39:35 -0500 (EST) From: jim To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fabrizio=20Ravazzini?= Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news letter server In-Reply-To: <20020212152152.69778.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not sure about vpopmail, but it will support qmail. http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/mjqmail.html#2.3 -- Jim Weeks On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Fabrizio Ravazzini wrote: > Hi, thanks for help, we are using > qmail+vpopmail+ezmlm, I think that majordomo does't > support vpopmail. > > regards > > --- jim ha scritto: > 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 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 > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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