Mailman vs ezmlm

Daniel Vainsencher daniel.vainsencher at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 03:33:00 UTC 2005


Whichever one it is that is running the packages list, I couldn't find 
where to tell it to register an address and not send anything to it. I 
happen to switch SMTP servers often.

As a result, I get three of everything. So whichever that mailing list 
manager that is, I'm not happy with it.

Daniel

Simon Michael wrote:
> Hi Cees.. good question. I also run both. I think they're both about 
> equally capable, but differ in their manageability.
> 
> ezmlm is great for lists you set up and then forget about; they just 
> work, no intervention required. It doesn't come with any decent web 
> interface that I know of, though there may be one out there. (I've seen 
> the one at discuss.squeakfoundation.org.)
> 
> Mailman of course has a rather good and complete web interface for both 
> admins and subscribers. Many knobs and options to twiddle to get things 
> just right, but it's easier to come back to it a month or a year later 
> and figure out how to do something.
> 
>  From a user point of view, unless there's a better ezmlm web interface 
> available I guess I'd vote for mailman everywhere.
> 
> 



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