I run a website wherein potential customers are volunteering their email addresses in order to receive product updates, etc. Again, just to be clear -- I run an *opt-in* mailing list of ads for a company.
We've gotten started with Mailman (2.0.8), and while it's a great discussion engine, it doesn't seem to be very well suited for bulk mailing etc. For example, I was asked, "how do I know which people have received which mailings, etc.?", and of course I had no good answer based upon Mailman's capabilities.
My questions are:
Are there features or usage patterns of Mailman (2.0.8) which are recommended for my use cases?
Will Mailman 2.1 have more features in this area?
Is there some other package entirely which I should be looking at, rather than Mailman? (GPL or similarly-licensed, preferably).
Thank you,
Bryan