Simple email list setup

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 17:37:13 EDT 2009


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.

  Okay, I've watched the suggestion traffic flow by, and since nobody
has come up with something really good, let me suggest GNU Mailman.
You're right, it is overkill for what you want, but on the other hand
it comes pre-configured with many distributions, and management is
wicked easy with the web UI.  Plus once you have it, you may find
other uses for it.

  Yell if you need help setting it up for the first time.  In most
distros, you only need a handful of commands, all of which are pretty
easy.  Typically it will be something like:

yum install mailman
mailman newlist mailman
mailman config_list -i /usr/share/mailman/data/sitelist.cfg mailman
mailman msitepass

  Then browse to <http://server.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman> to
subscribe yourself to the site-wide "mailman" list (used for system
notifications).

  Then browse to <http://server.example.com/mailman/create> to create
the list for your users.  Follow the prompts.  Done.

  I did it for GNHLUG's server not long ago, when I had to rebuild the
server after the disk crash, and it wasn't hard at all.

-- Ben


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