[nycbug-talk] Modern Mailing List as a Service? Or software?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Sat 2013.03.23 at 21:22 -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
> On 03/23/13 20:26, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > On 3/23/2013 7:07 PM, Matt Juszczak wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> We have a client using Monarch for mailing list archiving with ezmlm for
> >> the actual mailing lists, hosted internally in their own data center.
> >> It's part of a bigger puzzle, but the goal is to migrate most of the
> >> SMTP stuff off of some BSD relay servers to something like Sendgrid.
> >> I'm trying to see if there's an "as a service" solution for hosting
> >> these lists, considering there's only a few of them and I don't think
> >> they need to maintain hardware (or even cloud infrastructure) for them.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, majordomo or mailman may still be viable alternatives,
> >> especially with good BSD support for both.  Does anyone have any
> >> suggestions?  Definitely want to move away from ezmlm as it hasn't been
> >> supported in over a decade.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Matt
> > 
> > Off the top of my head, you could try mlmmj. It's a modern codebase (the
> > current release was made mid-2012) and IIRC, is supposed to emulate (or
> > at least is inspired by) ezmlm.
> > 
> > Ports might lag behind one version (but should be trivial to bring
> > up-to-date).
> > 
> > NOTE: I haven't tried it myself, just going off memory.
> > 
> 
> +1 on mlmmj.  Well done mail manager.  NYC*BUG would be using it if the
> migration from mailman wasn't such a nightmare.

++

> I've managed some lists with it before, and I enjoy the Unixey approach.
>  Haven't used any of the add-ons, but there's a lot of stuff out there
> AFAIK.
> 
> g
> 
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk