[lug] Distributed e-mail lists

[John Hernandez]

Thanks.  I'm currently experimenting with TLB ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/tlb/ as it may accomplish our goals with a minimum of changes to the current setup.

Cheers,
John

Michael Deck wrote:
> 
> At 11:02 AM 5/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >I'm looking for a distributed e-mail list (with support for parallel
> >mirrors) for a high volume list.  It needs to support Linux and
> >centralized subscription management.  What we need is basically a system
> >that delegates portions of the subscriber list to different MTA's
> >transparently and queues outgoing mail in parallel.
> >
> >So far, I've seen ezmlm-idx w/ qmail.  Any other open source solutions out
> >there?
> >
> >-John
> 
> I've used both ezmlm and MailMan and I like the latter a lot better.
> However, the installation of ezmlm is about 20x easier. Mailman's install
> (at least for me) took forever with a lot of re-installations, hacking, and
> trial-and-error. I found the file-protection scheme hard to figure out. But
> once it was installed it seemed to be much easier to manage since you do
> all the management from web pages rather than from command line. This also
> makes it possible to administer remotely, which I find useful. Also,
> instead of cryptic email-addresses like
> boulder-acm-list-subscribe-deckm=acm.org at cleansoft.net, you navigate to the
> list's web page and enter your subscription info. This makes it especially
> useful when you have the case where most of your subscribers find out about
> the existence of the list from a web page that you can link to the list's
> page.
> 
> On the whole I'm happy with MailMan though from the number of
> queries/complaints about the install and protection issues on the support
> list, I'd say it's due for some improvement.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> Michael Deck
> Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.
> 
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