I'm looking for recommendations on mailing list software. I'm playing with chromatic's Mail::SimpleList, but what else is out there? I'm not a hardcore user, but I'd like to have a half-dozen lists or so. Web-viewable archives would be nice, too.
You can find siesta on CPAN as well as the mariachi mailing list archive tool that goes with it.
There is also an article at perl.com and richard clamp has done several talks on the subject at YAPC and london.pm
Uses perl, Template Toolkit and modern email modules to do everything people have been asking for in the last couple of years.
Re:siesta - how could you not have heard of it?
ajtaylor on 2004-11-17T19:18:01
I remember reading about this long ago, and was suitable impressed. But it looks like there has been no development in over a year and a half after the 0.66 release. Is it that feature complete & bug-free that it's needing nothing? Or has there just not been a CPAN release?Re:siesta - how could you not have heard of it?
muttley on 2004-11-18T16:30:22
There's stuff in the SVN tree that fixes various things - I should probably do another CPAN release soon.
To be honest it's a bit of a catch-22. it works fine (apart from the web frontend but I usually use the command line tool anyway) and, whenever anybody asks for a feature we usually implement it within a day. But without those feature requests coming in I've got other projects that I'm mroe motivated to work on.
TBH, there's very little that it can't do that Mailman can do and it's much easier to extend and write custom plugins for. And it has per-user reply-to munging which stops people whining on mailing lists.
Best thing to do is try and install it and use the Perl.com article to set up a list. Then tell us if we need more or better docs. Or other features.
Gratuitous ego stroking is good as well.
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