[plug] Customer Mail Out

[Nathan Alberti]

Thank's heaps James, I found the sync_members utility as part of
Mailman.

Regards,

Nathan.

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 18:37, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1092306880.833.10.camel at nathan>
> on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:34:40PM +0800, Nathan Alberti wrote:
> > I suppose in qmail I would create a .qmail file with all the addresses
> > in it,...The customer is running postfix and I'm not as familiar with
> > its method of achieving a similar task,
> 
> With postfix, I assume you could do it the sendmail way. That is, go
> `man aliases` and pick up the :include: syntax from there. Then, dump
> your subscribers into a plain text file. Then, send e-mail to the alias
> that you have just created. This is easy, but has a number of drawbacks
> (including the fact that arbitrary people will be able to send mail via
> that alias!).
> 
> > (insert mailing list software here) but it seems silly to have a full
> > blown mailing list manager when all that is required is a mail out.
> 
> Do you want:
>  - only a limited number of authorised posters?
>  - to have bounces hidden from your view?
>  - to have web-accessible archives?
>  - to give people the ability to unsubscribe themselves without
>    bothering you?
> 
> If so, a mailing list manager can be useful (though you have to think
> carefully about how you wish to maintain the subscriber list -- newer
> versions of Mailman are beginning to be designed to accommodate this
> for you, although you can whip up an independent solution if you want).
> On the other hand, as you say, it might just be extra baggage for your
> situation.
> 
> 
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