Simple email list setup

[Kenny Lussier]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Larry Cook <lcook at sybase.com> wrote:

> I am looking for suggestions on setting up a simple announcement email
> list with about 50 static members (no self-subscribe/unsubscribe), of
> which only 4 members can send to the list.  Currently the list is
> managed by one member from her email account.  The two reasons for
> making a change are:
>
> 1) The list maintainer doesn't always remember to use bcc to hide
> members addresses.
>
> 2) In her absence email cannot be sent to members.
>
> I've used majordomo many years ago and currently use Dada Mail for
> another organization.  I've also looked at Mailman, phplist, poMMo, etc.
>  All of these provide a lot of nice features but they all seem to be
> overkill for our minimal requirements.
>
> Are there any open source packages that just provide the basics we need
> and would be easier to setup and use?
>
> It seems like email aliases with a way to restrict the sender should be
> sufficient.  Are there easy ways to implement this, or something like it?
>

ObtuseSMTPd (http://c0re.23.nu/c0de/osmtpd/) might do the trick. You can set
up your alias in sendmail the way you normally would, and then use smtpfwdd
from obtuse to only allow certain people to sent do the alias. It is an
extremely easy configuration, and simple to set up.

Thanks,
Kenny
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