RE: [kDev] New server: Mailman questions????

["Kennedy, Steve" <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

> Steve is currently working on configuring Kirk to take the 
> Kendra website, 
> amongst other things. He's recommending using Mailman:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
> instead of our current Majordomo/MHonArc setup. It's an all 
> in one package, 
> he says.
> Question: Does anybody know Mailman? Need to know if we can keep the 
> current setup of having all list management done via 
> profile.php. So, that 
> means being able to talk to Mailman somehow from PHP/MySQL or 
> writing to 
> directly to its configuration files. Can this be done?

Dont know, however mailman has a few flaws, like you can get all the
email addresses of the list members (IMHO), which helps spammers etc.
Also needs Python ...

Steve

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