[geeks] Mailing list software.

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Tue Mar 26 00:13:58 CST 2002


> On March 26, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> > I need to set up a mailing list on one of my servers. I am looking at
> > majordomo and mailman. Which is best. (Maybe that was a bad question) anyway.
> > Which is the easiest to setup and maintain, which is most secure?
>
>   I've run majordomo for years, but switched over to mailman a few
> days ago.  Mailman kicks the shit out of majordomo in every way.
>
>   Majordomo is very slow, not very feature-rich, and has been pretty
> stagnant for several years.
>
>   In short...use mailman.  It rocks.

Does mailman have to be administered via the web interface?  I didn't use
it cause I didn't feel like installing a web server on yet another
machine.

I read the instructions on how do to weird NFS mounting of your mailman
directories onto your webserver, but it just didn't work out quite right.



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