Chapter 9: Managing Mailing Lists

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Mailing-list managers (MLMs) are systems that help list owners run mailing lists. An MLM's duties fall into two main divisions: managing the lists of subscribers and controlling the resending of messages to the subscribers.

All of the commonly used Unix mailing-list managers can work with qmail.

Overview

This chapter describes how to manage mailing lists under qmail:

• First, we'll show how to set up and manage simple mailing lists.

• Next, we'll cover ezmlm, the MLM from the creator of qmail.

• We'll also learn about ezmlm-idx, an extended version of ezmlm that includes many advanced features.

• Then we'll cover Majordomo, one of the most popular Unix MLMs.

• We'll also talk about Mailman, an MLM known for its Web-based interface.

• Finally, we'll talk about strategies for making other Unix MLMs work with qmail.

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