Mailing list software recommendations?

[andrewducker]

A mailing list I'm on is using Mailman. Which stores your password in plain text (and will email it back to you).

This is clearly rubbish. Any suggestions for better free/open software that I can recommend?

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[fanf]

Mailing list software is a disaster area.

Apart from mailman, there is sympa, which is aimed at university-type deployments (eg support for driving lists from ldap), and various packages that are half-finished or undocumented or ancient, like majordomo or mj2. And then there are the packages aimed at marketing bulk mail.

I don't know if mailman 3 fixes egregious misfeatures like its password reminders...

[andrewducker]

How is this not something that was fixed in the 1990s???

[fanf]

Exactly! This is what it is to be a postmaster...

(Though to be pedantic, mailman was the late 1990s fix for majordomo.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I think the last time I ran a mailing list was in 2001, and that was with commercial software.

[skington]

AIUI Yahoo fucks all mailing list software on the grounds of anti-spam. Some combination of SPF and whatever the most recent buzzword thing is.

OTOH, how bad is the Mailman plaintext "Oh look, it's the first of the month, I get email from mailman installs" behaviour? So yeah, it tells you "if you want to unsubscribe / switch from normal to digest mode, here's how". If you pay any attention to the mailing list, you'd notice the change, and you'd have to have a mitm attack in the first place to be vulnerable.

[alitheapipkin]

We are still using mailman at work so I'm guessing alternatives are not rich on the ground.

[skreidle]

My wife has been using MailChimp, and is very pleased with its capabilities.