On Jan 8, 2019 10:15 AM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > > I am looking to set up a mailing list manager on a NetBSD server. > > The member count is more or less fixed between 300 to 350 and isn't going > to grow beyond. > > The email archive should be browsable and searchable through a web > interface. ("searchable" is less critical of the two requirements as even > google search can be used to search through the archive.) > > I need the email storage to be in text format so as to be able to write > tools of my own, on the server, to analyze the emails (say to grep > patterns or even to do NLP). > > Lastly it needs to be available in pkgsrc. >
I'm not sure if it is in pkgsrc but mlmmj is nice. http://mlmmj.org > I first looked up majordomo as that's the one NetBSD mailing lists use. > But looks like it is not an active project, with last release being in > 2000. > > Saw mailman and sympa to be talked about more and there is a nice > comparison here[1]. > > Would appreciate inputs on this. > > An OT question: Does NetBSD mailing list prefer majordomo or it's a legacy > with no specific reason to change (or are there thoughts about changing > it?) > > > Mayuresh > > [1] https://www.sympa.org/documentation/mailmanvssympa.html