At 5:44 PM -0800 2005-01-09, Bill Bruns-Yahoo wrote:
I am looking for information about the stability of Mailman,
It's about as stable as any other mailing list management system that I've seen in the twelve or so years I've been specializing in doing Internet mail systems administration. It's about as stable as any other GNU project I've ever known, and keep in mind that most hardware/OS vendors don't bother to develop their own compilers any more and choose to use gcc (the GNU C Compiler) instead.
If you're using Linux, then you should already know about the stability of most GNU projects. Mailman should be in that same ballpark, with regards to stability.
The one issue with Mailman is that it is not a commercial program, and there is no commercial support available for it. If you need that, then you need to look elsewhere.
Unless you want to provide full-time employment to Barry Warsaw for all your necessary support, that is.
especially since there are quite a few problems reported on this list.
Of course, you're going to see a lot of complaints here about it. This is where people come to get help to solve their problems, and if they're not having any problems, they're unlikely to post much of anything here.
Also about the minimum system requirements to run it.
See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.024.htp>
Alternatively, if you could suggest a different mail list manager, that would be useful also.
You could always try Listserv, but that's pretty expensive. Even people with large mailing lists (hundreds of thousands of recipients) usually choose to use something else, primarily due to the cost.
Once you're over the level of hundreds of thousands of recipients, there aren't many programs left that can handle that kind of load, so you might have no other choice but to use Listserv.
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