Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Mayuresh wrote in <20190109131516.GA25962@localhost>: > |On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > |> 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) > | > |Thanks for a comprehensive reply. I am currently tending towards mlmmj due > |to the claims of smaller footprint as I'll be using a VPS to host this. > > It cannot do MIME out of the box, and it also had some problems > when i used it. (There should be posts on their ML on that, > a couple of years back.) If your users use MIME you have to hook > in scripts, and then it becomes more expensive... Having said > that, AlpineLinux seems to use it for their MLs, and it seems to > work. But there all people use 7-bit clean text mails only.
Back when BSD users were on my only mail list using 7 bit, it was easy. Then I added lists for sports & social locals. they mostly used Microsoft, then their client software `enhanced' so they could excrete font & size of the day, in colour, with national character set extensions beyond Ascii, using MIME, then MS MUA providers left MIME on by default & users didnt know to turn it off for lists, or how to turn off, or to what advantages. Majordomo was not MIME aware, & MIME obscured the How To Unsubscribe etc list footers majordomo appended (& of course users were too dumb to look in list headers) so more admin time was wasted, so majordomo was abandoned. Mailman supports MIME. If there's a possibility a mail list server might have to later support non tech users, avoid server software that don't support MIME. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Computer Consultant Sys.Eng. BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent Brexit referendum stole 700,000 votes from Brits in EU, 3.7 million globally+ 1.9 M too young to vote + 1.3 M died, mostly Leavers. Electoral fines & lies. Government of national unity to avoid Brexit chaos, revoke Art. 50 & new ref. if we re-issue with more time. Email your MP http://berklix.org/brexit/#mp