On 2/26/21 3:29 PM, David.barden@mail.com wrote:

Good day,

Hi,

Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for subscribers. Any good examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists you can share for me to see? Trying to see the feasibility of implementing a solution in next 90 days.

I don't think the number of lists is as important as the number of subscribers on each list.

I have seen many installations of Mailman (v2.x) that have had lots of lists.

I believe some of the Mailman lists that I'm subscribed to have hundreds of subscribers.

Would like to see a working one, where a user would go to a site, and pick a list to subscribe.

Sorry, I don't know of anything off hand.

Is mailman easy to setup and maintain?

I've found that Mailman 2.x is quite easy to set up and maintain. Though, I don't think Mailman 2.x is good for a greenfield deployment. I don't have any experience with Mailman 3.x. Though I have heard that 3.x has different requirements than 2.x, some of them non-trivial.

Windows or Linux server recommended?

My vote is for Linux (or another Unix varient).

Thank you.

You're welcome.

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On 2/26/21 2:29 PM, David.barden@mail.com wrote:

Good day, Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for subscribers. Any good examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists you can share for me to see? Trying to see the feasibility of implementing a solution in next 90 days.

Would like to see a working one, where a user would go to a site, and pick a list to subscribe.

See https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ for Mailman 2 supported lists. This list used to be one of those before it migrated to Mailman 3 https://mail.python.org/mailman3/ (for support of the list - the list is still about Mailman 2).

Is mailman easy to setup and maintain?

Windows or Linux server recommended?

Definitely Linux or some other *nix OS over Windows. Many Linux distros have drop in Mailman 2.1 packages, but both Mailman 2.1 and Python 2 upon which it depends are end of life, although many if not most sites are still using it.

Mailman 3 is significantly more difficult to install, although there is a fairly functional, albeit out of date, package for Debian/Ubuntu.

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