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| DATE | 2015-02-22 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Majordomo2: from-scratch improved version, real open source, still
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Here you go:
http://mj2.org/
What is it?
Majordomo 2 is an upwardly-compatible rewrite of the popular majordomo
mailing list manager software by Jason Tibbitts and Michael Yount.
In this case, "upwardly-compatible" means that there is a fairly easy
way to upgrade from majordomo 1. Once you upgrade, the email interface
is largely the same, but almost everything else is different. It's
better though.
What do I need to run it?
In theory, just Perl 5 and various modules, all available from CPAN. In
practice, you really want a recent version of Perl 5, preferably
5.005_03 or 5.6.1, a Unix-like system of some sort (Linux works nicely),
and Berkeley DB.
Unlike Great Circle / Brent Chapman's ancient Majordomo 1.9.x, which you
run, Majordomo2 isn't unmaintained proprietary code. Licence is closely
based on Apache License, thus actual open source.
Code status: Looks like development trailed off a/o 2009 except to fix
a CVE in 2011. Docs suggest coding work is unfinished, though I've
not run it. Design carries forword Majordomo 1.9.x's
security-destroying antipattern of using pipes in /etc/aliases to
redirect mail to the MLM. (Bad! Very! But no worse than what you are
already running in that regard.)
Interesting 2001 comparison of then-available MLMs:
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/03/list-software/
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