Re: Mailing list manager on NetBSD

[Edgar Pettijohn <edgar%pettijohn-web.com@localhost>]

On Jan 8, 2019 10:15 AM, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> I am looking to set up a mailing list manager on a NetBSD server.
>
> The member count is more or less fixed between 300 to 350 and isn't going
> to grow beyond.
>
> The email archive should be browsable and searchable through a web
> interface. ("searchable" is less critical of the two requirements as even
> google search can be used to search through the archive.)
>
> I need the email storage to be in text format so as to be able to write
> tools of my own, on the server, to analyze the emails (say to grep
> patterns or even to do NLP).
>
> Lastly it needs to be available in pkgsrc.
>

I'm not sure if it is in pkgsrc but mlmmj is nice.

http://mlmmj.org

> I first looked up majordomo as that's the one NetBSD mailing lists use.
> But looks like it is not an active project, with last release being in
> 2000.
>
> Saw mailman and sympa to be talked about more and there is a nice
> comparison here[1].
>
> Would appreciate inputs on this.
>
> An OT question: Does NetBSD mailing list prefer majordomo or it's a legacy
> with no specific reason to change (or are there thoughts about changing
> it?)
>
>
> Mayuresh
>
> [1] https://www.sympa.org/documentation/mailmanvssympa.html