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An (electronic) mailing list is a distributor of mails to a large group of subscribers, one possible type of a digital forum. It's often used by software developers and administrators for communication among themselves and by organizations and corporations for newsletters (in one direction only).

On discussion lists, every subscriber (member of the group), or at least a group of verified subscribers are allowed to send mails to the list and receive all mails from others. Public Archives (often available as websites) can be either public or non-public.

Announcement lists work only in one direction. An organization or a corporation can use an announcement list (where all customer's mail addresses are collected) send them newsletters. The receivers have to be clients or supporters of the sender and are not allowed to send mails to the list. Announcement lists are also used in software development to inform their users about updates.

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Mailman - Send out emails at different times depending on the timezone of the user?

We need to send out regular emails to people, and we're thinking about using a mailman list. However one requirement is that we want each user to get the email at a different time. We want them to get it at the same time, local time. So if we have 2…
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Mailman not integrating with postfix properly

I installed postfix on my local machine and able to send mails to local users i.e. shivams in my case which is username of the account. Also i am able to send mail outside of my machine for ex. gmail.com etc. It is other thing that they are marking…
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How do I stop spam sent to mailing list posters by a list subscriber?

I administer a few moderate traffic mailing lists. I'm starting to get reports from list members about spam being sent to them after they post to a list. I've been sent a couple of these spam messages with full headers. Looking at these headers, I…
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Is there a mailing list provider which allows me to include a sign-up form on my site?

What I want to do is present the user with a sign-up form, which contains checkboxes for some of our mailing lists (discussion, not newsletter). Is there a mailing list provide that has an API for this situation? Alternatively, is there a provider…
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Mailings to specific email provider causing popstate corruption?

We send out a weekly mailing to several thousand subscribers using an old version of Lyris ListManager, and have done so for years without incident. Every month or so starting about a year ago, two or three subscribers from one specific ISP…
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How many bounces before removing a dead address to avoid recycled spam trap?

We are developing our own mailing tool and scan log and mail error to remove dead mails from our database. When an error 5xx is returned by mails servers, we remove the mail for a determined time (eg 80 days). We do this because we want to try…
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Can I let mailman handle bounces and also capture them to a mailbox for viewing?

We're trying to debug mass bounces from ISPs such as Yahoo! and Comcast for one of mailing lists powered by mailman. Unfortunately, I've never found a setting that allows mailman to handle the bounces, but also CC postmaster (or some other email…
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Safe mailing list operation

I've been asked to create a mailing list system which will be used to send regular newsletter type emails to our customers. The software side is just about complete, so that needs no discussion. Having read more than once about systems getting block…
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Conditionally prepending a string to mail subject in Exim4

I have a custom solution for implementing mailing lists using only Exim4 and a SQL database. Basically, most of the hard work is done in a single router, which checks on various conditions, does list-members lookup, adds new header fields, modifies…
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Bulk Mail - Anti spam measures

We are providing a bulk mail system for a couple of our CRM/B2B customers, But on one of our smaller runs we got back a number of spam related bounce backs. I have read that we would need to set up a PTR record on the clients website DNS to point…
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How quickly should I action the update announcements on the CentOS mailing lists?

I've recently subscribed to the CentOS mailing lists so that I can keep up to date with any new releases or updates. I'm subscribed to CentOS-announce. I get quite a lot of emails regarding bug fixes and updates. Assuming the update is relevant to…
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Listserv Editor role mail address

I am using Listserv 15.5 and I would like to use a mailing list address as editor mail address, however Listserv explicitely warns one from using a mailing list address: Important Note: The first editor MUST be an email address that goes to a…
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PHPMailer email goes to spam, Outlook email doesn't

I'm sending out emails using PHPMailer through an SMTP server that I control, and I have DKIM and SPF set up and working properly, however, when I send a test email to my gmail account it goes to the spam folder immediately and claims that my email…
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DNS MX configuration

Can anybody confirm this would work ? I have two MX-configured DNS records to handle smtp and pop. I'd like to implement a 'mailing list' server in another machine so: Would it do any harm the fact that this third mail server has no user inboxes…
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Which Mailing List Software?

I'm moving my mail infrastructure from mailup.com to an in house solution. I send roughly 65.000 emails a week and I'm aiming to double this within the next 6 months. I gave a look at PhpList and GNU mailamn. What other options do I have? I'm…
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