On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:05, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:01:52PM -0500, Eric Stanley wrote:
> > I'm looking for a open source mailing list manager that will only be used
> > to send messages from a limited number of people, not everyone subscribed
> > to the list. It also needs to be able to customize each message, ala mail
> > merge. Finally I want the users to be able to unsubscribe themselves,
> > preferably by sending an email message, but I would accept a web
> > interface as well.
> >
> > Can traditional MLMs do this? Is anyone out there using such a product?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Eric
>
> Currently running Mailman at work, you can specify who is allowed to send
> mail without administrative approval, all other mail is held for approval.
> However, it looks like mailman will only do subscribe/unsubscribe from the
> web interface. Majordomo will do all administrative tasks by email.
> The whole mail merge thingy, not sure exactly what you are looking for.
> Might be possible to combine some custom scripting to deal with that part
> and let the MLM do the rest. HTH,
> Josh

I'm really looking to do an email newsletter, so (among other things) I'd like 
to address the addressee in the body of the message (Dear Mary, Dear Joe, 
etc.)  I do want them to be able to unsubscribe themselves if they decide 
they no longer to receive the newsletter, so a tool that just does email 
merge (like a contact manager) won't do the trick.

Eric


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