mailing-list

Alternative to FreeLists for hosting my (developer/software) maling lists?

For many years I have had a low-traffic mailing list at freelists.org to provide users of my hobby software projects with updates about releases and other news. Recently I noticed they now send out monthly reminders to everyone subscribing to any of their hosted lists, informing them which lists the user is subscribed to. I don't want ...

Simple/lightweight alternative to GNU Mailman?

I'm looking for a dead simple mailing list (unix friendly). Robustness, fine-grained configurability, "enterprise-readiness" (whatever that means) are not requirements. I just need to setup a tiny mailing list for a few friends. Rather than hack something up myself, I was wondering if anybody knows of anything already out there with a si...

Does LISTSERV have an API?

I have a custom application that was built to send opt-in newsletters and marketing emails. It does a pretty good job sending mail, but it doesn't respond at all to bounces or unsubscribe requests. It seems to me that rather than building that functionality myself I should use a mailing list manager such as LISTSERV. However, I'm not su...

How do I send bulk mail to my users in a generic fashion?

I have a continually updating SQL database with email addresses from my users. I would like a way to send them newsletters, general information, account information, billing, subscriptions, and other important information. I want to make a generic HTML/Text template for each bulk mail and have SQL fill out the rest of the information. ...

What's the Best Mailing List Package? (Linux)

We need a mailing list package similar to Python Mailman. I'd use Mailman except for one thing: we want to link the subscriber list to a table in our MySQL database. We want people to be able to opt in/out and control delivery options directly from our site in addition to via the email interface. I don't think Mailman has an easy way to ...

How can you emulate a mailing list in Django?

I'm on a project which is trying to write what amounts to a Mailing List app in Django, and we're running into a couple of problems/questions. The code we have so far doesn't set various List headers, and re-sets the To header to be the person we're sending it to, instead of the list address. Now, we can work our way through all these ...

Best practices to follow/read large mailing-lists?

You're probably a lot to be subscribers to various mailing list, some more updated than others. What are your best practices to follow all information going by these lists? What are the best clients you've used to managed that? I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to get the best signal out of this noisy way of communication :) ...

What is the best way to test mailing list software?

I recently wrote mailing list software in Ruby On Rails. I would like to get some expert advice on the best way to test it. For example, it would be cool if I could write a script generate 10,000 email addresses, use the software to send an email to those 10,000 addresses, and then write a script to make sure the emails got through. I...

recruiters posting job offers on a developer mailing list

what are the recruiter job posting policies that the mailing lists you belong to use? I belong to a user group that meets in person once a week and also has mailing list. Recently we were getting spammed by a recruiter so the list banned their account. anyone experienced this and if so, how have you handled it? ...

Upgrading Mailman with PGP authentication to prevent spam

We had recently a spam attack to our mailing list which overcome all Mailman anti-spam measures, by impersonating the spam as sent from members of the list. To fight such spam, a better authentication is needed and PGP signed emails seem to be one of the solutions. My question is, how to upgrade the Mailman to deal with PGP signed email...

PHP Script to add a user to mailing list in cPanel?

I've a mailing list in my cPanel. When a user registers, I want to add him to my mailing list automatically. How can I do it? ...

Is there a good way to migrate from a Mailman list to an web forum?

I have a Mailman managed list with years of history that I want to migrate into a web-based forum. Things it would be nice to do: Keep the mailing list going for those who are used to and prefer it to a web interface, but have it integrate with the web-forum activity. Take the web-based forum posts, and send them out to the mailing li...

Why mailing lists for project collaboration?

I've noticed that a number of open source projects continue to use mailing lists in lieu of forums. I've personally found mailing lists to be cumbersome and unsearchable, making it harder to solve/discuss technical problems with projects employing them. Am I missing some inherit advantage to mailing lists or are they anachronistic? Just...

Trying to find an open source mailing list system to integrate into my Zend Framework application

I'm looking for a simple, open source mailing list application (or library) that I can add to my Zend Framework application. I can't seem to find any that are decent, and once I have, not quite sure how I will integrate it (due to MVC). Has anyone done this? ...

Recommended open source java mailing list software

Can anyone recommend a based open source mailing list software ? The following would all be desired if possible: Java as the underlying language, as we have people who are experienced with Java Something which is packaged as a war and can be dropped into a Tomcat server A sleek interface Underlying data should be reasonably transpare...

What's the best approach to sending email to hundreds of recipients from a Zend Framework application?

I'm trying to implement a mailing list system for my application. I'm currently using Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('localhost') as my transport, looping through my list of subscribers, and sending a new Zend_Mail to each one. However, I am noticing that the length of time that it takes for the script to complete increases as the number of su...

Simple Mailing-List (not Newsletter) for Joomla?

Is there a way I can make joomla do the following: I have several mail accounts that should act as a discussion mailing-list. The administrator (and only the adminstrator) maintains a list of customer email adresses that belong a particular discussion group mail adress. Whenever a Mail is sent to e.g. specialinterestdiscussion(at)mydoma...

Mailing List Archive

Hello All, We have as number of discussion lists that are locked away within mailman. I want to develop an archive of the lists, including the possibility of extending the archive with new contributions, visualisations, etc. Has anyone any suggestions for possible software? ...

Is ReportViewer capable of Mailing Labels?

Hello, I’m using C# with VS2008 Standard. Is it possible for ReportViewer to create mailing labels? Or is it not really meant for that? PS.I don't want to use MS Word in any way. Thanks ...

Mail List Management API?

I'm building a website that needs to provide users with the ability to subscribe to new items in each category. So, potentially I'll have dozens of different mail lists, each with hundreds of subscribers. On a previous site, I built the mechanism myself and it worked well enough. I did fall foul of various spam filters and blacklists th...