Howdy,

I am planning to adopt mailman on Redhat 9.0 to distribute
a monthly newsletter to my email subscribers?

I have the following questions:

1. Does mailman have a GUI on linux?

2. Does it support grouping - so I might selectively send stuff to
different people?

3. Does that support any database interfacing, so that I might
manage my client data more effectively?

4. Is it able to integrate with any mail client such as Mozilla
or Outlook so that I can manage my mass email remotely?

Thx a ton,
HTM

1) All list management is web based.
2) Short of creating individual lists - no. But you can extract a membership list.
3) I have enver heard of mailman using different database types.
4) Yes - you just send an e-mail to the list.

The source code tar ball I just compile and i9nstall, is that web-based?

Thx,
HTM

That will give you the web based features - you will need to tweak some of the basic configuration but that is generally a one off thing. Then you need to make the web based file available by configuring apache - the instructions should be in the tarball

I got mailman installed and it's OK on creating list, subscription among
others, however, when I send email to mydomain@mydomain.com,
there is no pending requests no matter how long I wait.

I created an account named mydomain at my local server where my mailman is set up,
what else I should do to make mass email work?

Thx,
HTM

I seem to have forgotton - is it qmail you are using for SMTP?

Have you set up the alias in /var/qmail/alias/

Do I still need to set alias?

BTW how to open 143 imap port using iptablees or ipchains?

Thx,
HTM

I added the following 2 lines at /etc/aliases

mailman: my_username
mailman-owner: mailman

After I send email to my_username@mydomain_name.com, still I cannot
see any pending list in mailman?

Why,

Thx,
HTM

imap is now OK, just change my iptabkes, and restart the service, thx a lot.

Regarding mailman problem, now I am thinking tyo install my mailman at
my remote server instead of local server, shall I do this? Since when I send an email
to mailing list, the mailing list's alias user gets the email actually at my remote server,
of course with imap, I can check it locally.

THX,
HTM

Thx, I got it work, now I can telnet my_real_ip 143 port remotely (from my
LAN's server to my remote server)

I have 2 more questions if you could help me:

1. I am using Mozilla 1.6 under Redhat 9.0 as my mail client,
after setting IMAP server as my domain name (corresponds to
my real IP), and set up everything else as usual, when I open
the inbox, the system says "login to mail server failed" - but obviously
my remote telnet works, why?

2. On sending email side, I use my LAN's server instead of my remote
server, both server uses the same doman name, and different IP
addresses, it works well; now when I set up mailman at my LAN's
server, configue everything, and it web front functions properly,
now after I send a test email to my newly created list, I did not
see any pending mail in the admin menu, why? I suppose it should be
there for me to appove before distributing to all subscribers in the list

THx,