Re: [SLUG] Best Mailing List software?

["Jon Teh" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: SLUG <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Best Mailing List software?


> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:52:56PM +1000, Jon Teh wrote:
> > I am going to be setting up a server which will have Apache, and perhaps
a
> > few mailing lists. I was wondering what people thought, based on their
> > experiences, the best mailing list daemon + mail daemon is? I'll be
running
> > on Debian 2.2r3.
> >
> > I've heard of a few mailing list daemons, such as Majordomo, ezmlm,
etc...
> >
> > I'd appreciate people's opinions on this.
>
> Mailman seems to be taking over the world at the moment and with good
> reason: it's very configurable and not overly difficult to set up. It
> also has the advantage of being in common use (so people signing up for
> lists know how to use it) and having a nice webby interface for signup
> and admin stuff (and I generally hate webby interfaces, so that is
> saying something).
>
> The only drawback that people comment on is that it's
> archiving/searching portion is a bit less than perfect. Jeff probably
> has some opinions on this, since I know he did magic stuff when fixing
> up the SLUG archives recently.
>

Thanks for the hint on Mailman, I'll keep that in mind.

The best MTA is postfix, at least according to Xfire on friday, so I'll go
with Postfix.

Decent Archives/searching is required, so that may be a negative point for
Mailman.

Jon Teh