I have a client whom I am doing a website for. The hosting provider has no list management software installed (they run FreeBSD), but has given me the tentative OK to suggest a package if I can find one that suits my needs, and which they will install.
First question is, If necessary, can it be installed and run solely from my client's $HOME if necessary, thus making the entire list package only available to my website client? If not, one presumes that vhosting clients can be enabled on an as-needed basis by the hosting provider. Secondly, my clients particular needs are small, but his wants are many: o he wants to be able to post messages that every subscribed user receives (non-digested) immediately. (basically sales promotional, and new product announcements. that's it.) probably between one and five per month. o no subscribed users will be allowed to post back to the _list_, only to the reply address (which will be my client's [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, more or less). any attempts by a subscriber to post to the list will be sent to the list owner's address instead and will NOT be seen by the other members of the list. o no subscriber on the list will see another subscriber's e-mail address in any mail received from the list (i.e. in CC: or whatever). o subscription will initially be via a web-based form, which will send a confirmation e-mail to the address supplied, and require a response from the end user to the effect of "yes this is me and I want to be subscribed" before adding them to the list. o any further list interaction by the subscriber will be via _e-mail only_ to subscribe/unsubscribe/temporary-disable-and-reenable themselves to/from the list. No additional web-interface is required. o the list itself will be text-only. no html. Would all these options be configurable for a single vhosted client of a hosting-provider's server? How much of this will the hosting provider have to configure for us, and How much of it will we have to/be able to configure ourselves once we've been set up by the provider? Very interested in seeing discussion on this. This is my first foray into list management as a website kinda guy, so I'm totally unaware of what to expect and don't want to presume too much, so if my questions seem excessive, I plead utter complete spastic ignorance. For the most part, FAQ's rarely ever answer any of the questions *I* usually have, and I go read them later (although I've already looked and confirmed that they do not contain these answers, or else I misunderstood) I run red hat/fedora core at home and since this is bundled with Mailman, I figured you guys would be a good place to start my search for a list manager since I can play with it at home to test things. I look forward to your replies and hope my search ends here. :) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/