Been there, done that! (thank you, though)

Sympa showed promise on paper (specifically, the comparison paper available on the Sympa site) but it just didn't work out. I couldn't get the bloody thing installed on RedHat 8.0, despite working with one of the developers to try to get it happening. I sent out a message to the sympa-users list asking if *anyone* had successfully installed it on 8.0 and I all I heard was the crickets chirping. On the Sympa users list I constantly hear (read) of people running into significant problems. And the fact that there are *so* many Perl module dependencies just doesn't leave me with a comfortable feeling about Sympa. A colleague and I managed to get Sympa running on RedHat 7.3 after many hurdles, and we gave it a spin, but it just isn't what we're looking for.

In addition, the SQL offering in Sympa only applies to the user table. OK for a start, but I need more than that.

I have pretty much decided to go with Mailman because it is easy to install, has a very large install base, and has most of the delivery features I need. And the problems that are reported on this list don't seem to be major show stoppers with no solutions in sight.

So now that I have identified the best open source MLM (at least for my purposes), I just have to convince/beg/influence the Mailman developmnent folks to get it to behave more like the best commercial MLM (Lyris). ;-)

• Kevin

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:54, Jeff D wrote:

You guys might want to check out Sympa instead of Mailman -

http://www.sympa.org/