Mayuresh wrote: > I am looking to set up a mailing list manager on a NetBSD server.
I moved from majordomo to mailman on a freebsd server, I wouldnt expect difficulty on netbsd either. I've been very happy with mailman, more functionality than majordomo. > The member count is more or less fixed between 300 to 350 and isn't going > to grow beyond. My max on biggest list is maybe 250+, but some mailman installations run much bigger > 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.) Browsable yes. Searchable ? Maybe not As https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html contains "You can search or browse the mailing list archives at www.FreeBSD.org. It is also possible to browse the mailing lists via the Mailman Web interface." I suspect mailman may not support that internaly. Better ask on mailman users list. > 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). Just hours ago I inspected & deleted archives of list http://mailman.berklix.org/mailman/listinfo/ctm-src-12 so yes I can confirm plain text. Grep'able > Lastly it needs to be available in pkgsrc. No idea. I used to use NetBSD, & would happily again if need arose, but I don't currently as keeping up on 1 OS is less work than 2 If by chance Mailman is not supported yet, grab & convert to NetBSD: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/mail/mailman/ > 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. I recall there was a majordomo2, & there was also a MajorCool web interface but I think not widely adpopted. I upgraded to mailman instead Only problem I had was I didnt know how to import my old majordomo archives to mailman. I still dont know, ran out of time. > 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?) I imagine netbsd.org has no particular need of mailman for its own lists, as skilled tech savy computer people. I was equaly happy with a legacy majordomo on berklix.org while I just ran lists for BSD users & other tech savy users who could use command line intefaces & for users who could & would actualy Think. But I gradually ran more public lists for non techs, including some self admitted completely clueless & some other immeasurably lazy users, many of whom cant think or refuse to think, love to argue, & freak at command line etc, so the support load on unpaid volunteer admin time became intolerable, & I was depserate for a list manager with graphical clickey support to seperate myself from user support. (Though mailman can be CLI driven too I recall) > > > Mayuresh > > [1] https://www.sympa.org/documentation/mailmanvssympa.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mailing_list_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mailman https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Computer Consultant Sys.Eng. BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent First referendum stole 700,000 votes from Brits in EU; 3,700,000 globaly. Lies criminal funded; jobs pound & markets down. 1.9M new voters 1.3M dead. Email MP: "A new referendum will buy UK & EU more time (Art 50.3), to avoid a hard crash, & consider all options." http://berklix.org/brexit/#mp