Re: MajorDomo MajorCool question.

Thanks for your response Brent. I have over 5800 email addresses in 148
email groups, and 1.94.5 has been very good to me. I've customized a
bunch of things outside of the MD source, but have done some inside as
well, though I'm no Perl expert.

My major concern, and I'm not opposed to the general setup and
maintenance of going to mj2, is, when the time comes to hand this
project off, I'm pretty sure mailman (or something else?) might be the
better way to go because of the 'out of the box' (apt-get/yum, etc.)
availability.

Again, thanks for your response, and for now, I'm sticking with what I
know works, but will start studying mailman.

Any others?

Karl

On Fri, October 16, 2009 1:21 pm, Brent Chapman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Karl Pearson
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> But, for anyone who has read thus far, I have a question: Is there any
>> package for managing email groups that is easy to move to which is
>> also
>> better than Majordomo? Frankly, it's not broken, so I'm not planning a
>> move at this time, but I've been using MD 1.94.5 for about 15 years
>> now,
>> and as things have progressed from one server to the next during that
>> time, the thought crosses my mind that I may need to change email
>> group
>> server software at some point... It might be nice to have a Linux
>> server
>> that uses repositories for everything I have. Now that Ubuntu gives
>> ClamAV and SpamAssassin through repository, I may be tempted to also
>> switch from the CentOS/RedHat/Fedora flavor to a Ubuntu/Linux Mint/gOS
>> flavor sometime...
>>
>
> Even I don't use Majordomo 1.94.5 any more, and I wrote the thing...
>
> A few years ago, I moved all of the GreatCircle.com lists (including
> this
> one, [email protected]) to the never-released Majordomo2
> (which is a total rewrite that I had no involvement with;
> http://www.mj2.org/).  However, for the past couple of years, whenever
> I've
> set up new sites and new lists, I've used GNU Mailman (
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html), just like seemingly
> everybody else.
>
> Majordomo2 showed a lot of promise, but the authors have never
> officially
> "released" it.  It's close enough to finished for their purposes, and
> the
> project seems to have stalled.  If you're comfortable obtaining
> in-development code from a CVS server, setting it up (including the
> underlying MySQL database), and running it, then it might be for you.
> If
> you want the installation process to be "apt-get install mj2" (or the
> RedHat
> equivalent), then it's definitely not what you're looking for.
>
> Majordomo was useful in its day, and I'm honored that so many people
> have
> gotten so much use out of it over the years, but it's way past its "best
> by"
> date at this point...
>
>
> -Brent
>


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