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.

[fanf]

LISTSERV is still profitable. It is depressing and slightly amazing that software whose command language is specified in terms of "cards" (as in "punched") remains the best. (Having said that, thinking of fossils of ancient input devices, ptys are a horribly self-satirizing joke on path-dependent architectural failure.)

[momentsmusicaux]

Most software is crap... :(

[andrewducker]

Documentation for Mailman 3 indicates that it will fix this. But it's not finished yet.

[fanf]

I think that has to count as half-finished, if it doesn't have a web UI.

DDG tells me about the SubEtha list manager (Java) which might ve vaguely plausible if you don't mind jumping through a hoop to disable the ads. https://code.google.com/p/subetha/