On 30/07/16 20:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Lukasz Sokol wrote: > I'm sure that if one dug there would be plenty of prewritten mail > distribution programs, probably in Perl on unix (and if somebody > doesn't like that, he might as well stop reading here). >
there was even a pre-cursor to (probably) every known program like that, fetchmail... up to the interested reader to find what was it written in ;) and by who. (as in, I remember fetchmail from ~15-20 years ago, it had quite /specific/ approach to config files) > The key to managing anything like this is usually to use a different > email ID for each mailing list, e.g. something like > fred.fpc-ot...@telegraphy.co.uk for this one. Then either make sure > you deal with an ISP who is prepared to accept either all mail for > your domain or a significant number of predefined names (i.e. rather > than just a single one) or set up your own email server > (Sendmail+Cyrus or whatever). Then use Thunderbird etc. rules to > distribute traffic to folders by recipient. Yes. However it requires that filter/sorter be running somewhere all the time, to sort the messages. So you end up having a 24/7 computer in the house, which isn't to everybody's taste... or hosting it to run in a vm somewhere for free/non-free. And, well if you happen to think, that an DD/OpenWRT'd home ADSL modem(*) with some storage is enough, try to think of a good answer to 'Why do you need that hard drive attached to the modem all the time?' question, in 2 minutes ... ;) (*) (of which workable ones are not as easy to come by by the way either) > > Otherwise it's not particularly difficult to pipe messages from > Sendmail into a discussion group server, although I'd suggest that > anybody who chooses INN for this use v1 rather than anything later. > It's also not too difficult to redirect anything sent locally to an > external mailing list, but there is a number of "gotchas" that one > has to be aware of lest one sets up a loop. > Or for the matter, if the project happens to run a mailing list, to set up their own mail2news gateway with a nntp server of their own. (however it increases maintenance which nobody ever has time for...) (and you still might need to deal with takedown notices, as Gmane admin had to) -L. _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other