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Re: Re: which mailing list manager...



> Attila Horvath wrote: 
> 
> Any opinions about which mailing list manager is better? 
> 
> My personal favorite is sympa (www.sympa.org) 
> 
> 	
> 	Needed are...
> 	
> 	
> 	    - 'relative' customization ease
> 	    - self administering (as most are)
> 	    - archiving and retrieval
> 	    - spam filtering [optional] - I'm running spamassassin
> 	    - reliability & security
> 
> 
> yes to all, plus:
> 
> - database driven
> - web interface
> - very customizeable
> - well supported (open source, but driven by a funded team supporting a consortium 
> of French universities
> 
> Re. spam filtering: Sympa can route to antispam and antivirus engines, but it's 
> probably better to just integrate spamassassin and clamav directly with your MTA.

I'll second the recommendation for Sympa.  We started with Mailman, but unfortunately,
Mailman cannot handle huge lists (50,000 subscribers to a single list), even with the
patches to enable MySQL support.  Sympa handles it with ease.

-- Kevin



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