Have you considered the listserv Mailman? It is written in python & runs on Linux,
Unix, and not NT. It does all you want a listserv to do and is free. Check out
http://www.list.org/ for details.
I too struggled with Imail's listserv for too long, and in the process of abandoning
it for all my lists.
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Leonard Jacobs
Shambhala Publications
(617) 424-0030
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Scot Desort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:03:18 -0400
>Well, we use Lyris here for our listserver (sorry Ipswitch, but yours leaves
>a lot to be desired).
>
>I have written a ColdFusion page for our staff that they go to when a new
>dialup user signs up with us. It does the following:
>
>1. Adds the user to Imail (we use the registry for users) on one of our 3
>Imail servers depending on the domain
>2. Adds the users to a dialup list in Lyris, with no announcement to the
>user
>3. Sends an HTML welcome letter to the user's mailbox
>4. optionally, adds the user to a machine-specific list in Lyris if they are
>a web hosting customer also. This way we can send an email out to everyone
>who hosts with us that is on "webserver5" to notify them that we are
>upgrading something on the box or whatever.
>
>This is all done with checkboxes for the various lists. There is no
>unsubscribe feature yet, and this page is ONLY for our staff. We have lists
>for customers who subscribe to our LiveStats, ecommerce hosting, etc, so we
>can target users. And Lyris will eliminate duplicate posts - for example, if
>a customer is on a hosting list, as well as a dialup list. And we want to
>send a message out to all hosting and dialup customers. If we send the
>message to both lists in the same SMTP message, Lyris will intelligently
>detect which users are members of both lists and only send the message to
>them once.
>
>If you wanted to give users the functionality of being able to self-manage
>their subscriptions in Lyris, you could easilty build a CF or ASP page to do
>that also. Lyris has a web interface, but it is not a simple checkbox
>interface for all lists subscribed to on one screen. They would have to log
>into lists separately and unsubscribe. Lyris also makes their API freely
>available on their website if you're inclined to build your own app or CGI
>to do this.
>
>--
>Scot
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brent
>Spore
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [imail] Duplicates
>
>
> Me too... Doubles for about a week now
>
> Speaking of mailing lists. Is there a utility or script out there for
>some sort of list subscription page? What I'm looking for is 2 things. One
>that will add an e-mail to multiple lists with one click and not send
>confirmations out. And another that will add an e-mail to multiple lists
>and send out one e-mail stating that they have been subscribed to the
>following lists: ...
>
> Also un unsubscribe proggy that has the same functionality. It would be
>cool if it could remember what the users have or have not subscribed to and
>show them a bunch of checked or not checked boxes, allowing them to toggle
>list subscriptions on or off.
>
> Am I dreaming?
>
> Someone help me out.
>
> Brnet Spore
> Synergy Productions, LLC
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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