[Techtalk] Alternative ways to implement a mailing list...

[Terri Oda]

On 25-May-06, at 3:36 AM, Jason Landry wrote:
>> You may simply be better off using one of the free mailing
>> list providers such as www.smartgroups.com or Yahoo.
>
> Thing is, I want to have/use my own domain name.

You can always make a list at mydomain alias and point it at your 
list at yahoo address.  It's not ideal, because the mail will still come 
from yahoo or smartgroups or whatever, but at least everyone will be 
able to send to a small address you chose on your domain.

If you can find someone else to host mailman for you, it's actually 
built to handle this sort of thing, so you can host it without hosting 
your domain name there and yet still have it look right.  You just tell 
mailman that it's hosting a list for mydomain.com, and then you set up 
a set of aliases on mydomain.com to point to the "real" addresses of 
the mailman machine.

Eg:
- Set up a list called "list" on my machine mailman.example.com.
- tell Mailman on mailman.example.com that the preferred email server 
for this list is actually mydomain.com (which means it'll send using 
mydomain.com addresses)
- set up aliases at mydomain.com that point to mailman.example.com 
(list at mydomain.com -> list at mailman.example.com; list-join at mydomain.com 
-> list-join at mailman.example.com, etc.)

But for your use and minimalist resources... if you can't find a friend 
to host, and it's a small list, you're probably just as good to make a 
one-to-many alias.  You can usually do it just by separating addresses 
by commmas in whatever web interface they give you, but your mileage 
may vary there. :)

What's the list for?  How do you expect it to be used?