* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061211 08:13]: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred >> or so recipients. ... >> I found in the Debian archive a package named > >> "libmail-bulkmail-perl". ... > Overkill. Just set up an install of mailman for yourself and add > your recipients to your mailing list.
OK, mailman it is, then. Please note that my SOLE interest in Mailman is one-way transmission -- implementation of an "announce only" newsletter, rather than a traditional mailing list. Also, there is no need to allow a user to subscribe or to cancel his subscription; he can do that by emailing me directly. I installed Mailman and I've printed out and read over all the Mailman documentation I could find -- about two dozen documents totalling about 150 pages. The GNU Mailman Installation Manual tells me that I need to monkey around with the Exim4 configuration files. Is that really necessary? And in the file "mm_cfg.py", the Debian installer entered the machine name and local domain name for both "DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST" and "DEFAULT_URL_HOST". But these names have no meaning outside my LAN. It appears that all of the Mailman documentation assumes that the host has a valid publicly-accessible URL. If that is a requirement, then I cannot use Mailman. So now I'm intimidated. I'm thinking that perhaps that it would be better to use Mutt with an alias list. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
