On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:00:12PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
[snipped reason for question]
| That said, could anyone give me a recommendation for the following
| task to be completed /under windows/:
[snip requirements list that describe a mailing list manager]
How about MailMan? I like it as a user, but I've never admined a
list. It is written in python and thus has the potential for being
cross-platform. There is a debian package too :-).
http://list.org
Hmm, this is a snippet from their site :
Mailman currently runs only on Unix-y systems, such as GNU/Linux,
Solaris, *BSD, etc. It should work on MacOSX but not earlier
versions of MacOS. It probably does not work on Windows, although
it's possible you could get it running on a Cygwin system (please
let the developer community know if you have success with this!)
Can you find a spare box (486 or pentium class) to use debian as the
server for this venture?
| He'd like still to use LookOut Express as his personal email client,
| leading me to believe that whatever software we use will have to
| examine the POP3 mailbox headers, and selectively fetch, delete, and
| deal with list-related mail before he uses LO to get his personal mail.
|
| He's not connected 24/7, so it can't rely on mail going straight to him
| - it'll have to go via the ISP.
| /I'd/ like him to have the ability to use subscription confirmation
| somehow. Possibly a Reply-To: set to
| confirm-<unique-code>@hisdomain.com in a mail to new subscribers?
This sounds like you will want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail
and some sort of utility to handle the "multi-drop" characteristics of
his mailbox. That utility (I don't know what to use, if the ISP
includes the envelope recipient in the headers procmail could suffice)
will separate out the list traffic and sub/unsub requests and deliver
it to mailman and deliver all other messages to his "real" inbox. Can
LookOut Express handle standard mbox (or whatever) files as folders or
inboxes? If so then install cygwin and start working on this!
I think cygwin (combined with a local guru) is great for this sort of
education. It provides unix-like functionality with which you can
demonstrate how all these Free tools play together nicely to do
whatever you want to do. Then you can show him a real unix box that
runs the same tools so much faster and smoother, and he's already seen
that the tools work well.
HTH,
-D
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