We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
I've been running email lists for the Mac community since
November 1997. Over time we've grown from one list to a
dozen to over 30. Along the way, our demands for list
management software have also grown.
We started with Macjordomo and eventually had lists split
between three different Macs to keep any one machine from
being overwhelmed. Then we moved to a free list management
service provided by Maclaunch.com. Now it's time to find a
better solution.
The solution we're looking for should run on Linux,
allowing us to run it on our server so we're not held
hostage by our Internet connection.
The primary reason we need a better system is that we're
running over 30 lists and often receive requests from
subscribers such as "unsubscribe me" or "change me to digest
mode." I email back the question, "Which list(s)?" and wait
for their response.
The ideal solution will keep a single database of all
subscribed addresses, letting me quickly remove an address
from all lists or change an email address on all subscribed
lists by replacing an old email address with a new one.
The second drawback of our current system is that it
doesn't allow users to change their address. Instead, they
have to subscribe from the new address and unsubscribe from
the old one. List management software should make it easy
for subscribers to change their address - and should
require confirmation to prevent others from hijacking your
subscription.
Here's what we need:
A global email address database.
Support for single-message and digest
subscriptions.
Ability for users to subscribe, unsubscribe, change
email address, and switch mode.
Require subscribers to confirm subscriptions and
change of address.
Will either reject styled email or convert it to
plain text.
Will refuse attachments.
Can handle several thousand subscribers and heavy
list traffic.
Allows a ceiling on individual message and digest
size.
Can send digest once per day or upon reaching a
specified size, whichever comes first.
Blocks access to the subscriber database except to
those given a password.
Allows us to automatically append headers and footers
to each message and digest.
Lets the list manager blacklist users.
Wanted but not necessary
Uses enough fuzzy logic to realize that mail from the
domains "mail.domain.com" and "domain.com" is coming from
the same mail server. (Macjordomo did that, but our
current software doesn't.)
Ability for subscribers to easily switch to and from
null/vacation mode.
Use of command addresses (such as
"listname-on@domain.com") so subscribers don't need to
learn commands or use an administrative address.
Ability to tie into one or more spam filters, such as
RBL.
Bounce management to track bounces and unsubscribe
after a specified number of delivery failures.
Really nice ideas
A unified online subscription form making it easy for
subscribers to join several lists, change mode on all
their subscriptions, unsubscribe from all lists,
etc.
Ability to recognize vacation messages ("I'll be out
of the office until Monday."), switch subscriber to
vacation/null mode, and send subscriber a note indicating
the change and how to switch back.
Option for list manager to address an email to all
subscribers on all lists without sending it to each
individual list.
Searchable archives.
Among our 32 lists, we have lists with anywhere from 38
to 865 subscribers and traffic ranging from next to nothing
to over 1,000 messages per month. The total number of
subscriptions is over 8,000, but we have no way of knowing
how many unique subscribers that is. A system such as we've
outlined above would let us know that.
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We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
We believe in the long term value of Apple hardware. You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary. We want to help maximize the life of your Apple gear.
