Stupid computer question: Internet mailing list engerines

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Here's the thing .. I have an internet mailing list of about 300 people (who opted in on purpose, so - not a spam list, as if that makes a difference) through yahoogroups. A lot of them are no longer getting emails because their companies filter out yahoo mail.

I have played with sendmail & gotten it to work, but sending HTML messages is cumbersome - at least the way I'm doing it .. ie, it f'sucks.

Any ideas on a replacement email distribution method? Either a free service without ads (yeah right) or a locally installed program or script ...?

I don't have *full admin rights on the server, nor a lot of space to install software, although I may be able to free some up -

Whatever you can suggest would be helpful... Thanks ...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

majordomo

― Ed (dali), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ezmlm

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Filter out yahoo mail?

Why?

I tried to sign up for a messageboard the other day and it wouldn't accept me as I provided a yahoo email address.

Once again, why?

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Because anyone can get one with minimal effort?

I remember registering on Ebay, and having a similar problem: because it didn't recognise my email domain as an ISP (even though it *is*, grr), they required a lot more in the way of "prove you really exist and are an adult" steps.

(ironically, my ISP contracts its email provision out to Yahoo anyway)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

majordomo is pretty good

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've not really played around with mailing list software very much, but I was under the impression that majordomo is a bit old and not updated very often. Most of the mailing lists I'm on have moved over to other software.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I looked into majordomo - looked good, except you need root permission to install it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

How is it installed? Can't you reconfigure it to install into a directory you have write perms to? A lot of Unix programs let you do this by doing a pre-build configure with './configure --prefix=$HOME', or something similar

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you have to compile something, which I don't think I can do on this particular machine.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you at least get a shell command prompt? If you can do that, you can run ./configure, which will check to see if you *can* compile things or not.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mailman is the only way to go

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks - I think that may be what I need. I'll have to read instructions to see if I can install it...

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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