[H-GEN] Mailing List and Web Archive Recommendations

[Adrian Sutton]

> I'm looking to set up a mailing list with web-based archives  
> (search and a friendly interface being the key requirements) on a  
> Debian Sarge server. Anyone got suggestions on what's good to use?  
> Mailman and majordomo seem to be the most likely candidates for the  
> mailing list manager, but I haven't found anything good for the  
> archives.

For the record, I went with Mailman for list management and Lurker  
for the archives. I wound up putting the focus on Mailman's email  
interface for subscribing rather than the web form because of a lack  
of time to make it fit with the rest of the site and wound up heavily  
modifying Lurker's interface to match (it uses XSLT which was wholly  
unpleasant). The end result is http://liveworks.ephox.com/mailing- 
list/ - lurker is behind the link to the archives.

I'm pretty happy with it, except that for some reason Lurker doesn't  
seem to search the message subject, only the body. I'll have to see  
what I can do about that at some point.

Thanks for all the suggestions,

Adrian Sutton
http://www.symphonious.net