On 4/15/17 3:53 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 04/15/17 15:40, James B. Byrne wrote:
On Sat, April 15, 2017 08:01, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
The current version of Majordomo is 1.94.5, released 19 January 2000.[4]
[...]
Mailman is still under active development. It was updated to
accommodate the 2015 DMARC fiasco. It also has a web based management
interface and built-in archiving tool. These features make Mailman
somewhat more convenient for list managers who may not themselves be
sysadmins.
Off topic though it is, I'd concur with this. If you're starting out
from scratch, Mailman is the obvious choice. Majordomo still works as
well as it ever did, but honestly that is almost damning it with faint
praise. It's a 25-year-old piece of software that hasn't been updated
in 17 years, and during those 17 years the world it has to exist in has
changed enormously. Majordomo doesn't support current standards and,
realistically, it is never likely to. Save yourself the pain.
Also, Mailman comes with specific instructions for integrating it with
Postfix, out of the box.
If you're looking for a majordomo replacement, don't forget to look at
Sympa - the other major open source list manager floating around. It's
supported by a consortium of French universities, and is aimed at larger
organizations (universities) with lots of users and lots of lists. It's
had a DMARC patch since about 3 weeks after DMARC hit. It's a bit
trickier to configure & administer than Mailman, but also has more
features - so it's a tradeoff.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
