> ezmlm/qmail gets you insanely high performance (a 500+ subscriber mailing
> list I run for someone gets posts delivered to all of the subscribers in
> under about 10 seconds), is highly functional (with index/archiving,
> digesting, threading, etc.), has no maintenance at all (all bounces are
> handled automatically using VERPs, which the ezmlm/qmail guy invented), and
> never goes down (though I'm not quite sure what reliability has to do with a
> mailing list package; I'd argue it's a completely independent factor that
> relies on the reliability of the machine it's running on and the connection
> it's running over).
I don't wouldn't classify it as HIGHLY functional, although I wouldn't argue
that it has all of the basic functionality covered (by highly functional I
was referring to web admin, different types of digests, mail merge, delivery
reports, etc). Maybe HIGHLY was a bad choice of words.
Sounds like a great setup, but IMO Lyris still wins hands down for being
easier to setup, configure, and maintain. Maintenence is more than just
bounce handling, it's also making new lists, finding subscribers with
address problems, etc. The Lyris web interface makes this all very easy, and
the Perl and Java toolkits for writing Lyris extensions leaves me plenty of
room to customize/automate.
> It also doesn't run on Windows NT.
Have you looked at the subject of this message lately?
~~Josh
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