[Mailman-Users] Importing Addresses, Announcement only Lists and other questions

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Wed Dec 15 18:37:50 CET 1999


On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:30:56 -0500 
Jerry Thomas <jerry at scoregroup.com> wrote:

> 1) All I need is a miling list program that does E-mail
> confirmation of subscriptions and unsubscriptions with a web based
> front end for admin and users, is Mailman the best way to go?

MailMan is a way, and the way I use.  "Best" is always a subjective
criteria.

> 1) I downloaded the mailman archive and set it up.  Now I need to
> import a flat text file 0f 25,000 E-mail addresses.

~mailman/bin/add_members.

> 2) The mailing list needs to be announcement only (only admin
> users are allowd to post to the list).

You can configure that under privacy options.

> 3) I don't want any users to have to specify passwords at signup
> but instead only use confirmation E-mails for subscription and
> unsubscription.

Currently if they sign up via the web they will need to spec a
password, but if they sign up via email they won't (one will be
assigned to them by the system).

> 4) Sendmail to me seems kind of inneficient with system resources
> can anybody reccomend a good MTA that works well with mailman?

I would recommend Postfix or Exim.  I use Exim here, but would use
Postfix were I starting from scratch again (what I have works, so
I'm loathe to change it).  Others recommend QMail.

There's been a fair bit of mail on this topic in the last few
weeks.  You should be able to find the threads in the archives
without much trouble.

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