[TriLUG] mailman hosting with private searchable archives?

[Lisa Lorenzin]

thanks alan & aaron for the suggestions!

aaron, based on previous experience with a proprietary solution, we'd like 
something with more in-house control / migratability, so google groups 
isn't ideal (although it's worth considering if all else fails).

alan, having worked in a datacenter hosting environment in a previous 
life, i have _zero_ desire to be on the hook for hosting services ever 
again. ;)  however, it turns out there's a local hosting firm (EM Web 
Design out of winston salem) that will offer us a managed instance with 
cpanel, mailman, and htdig - we would need to do the integration patching 
and manage the lists ourselves, but hopefully that's close enough to 
"hosted" for our IT team...

 						regards,

 							lisa

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Aaron Joyner wrote:

> Google Groups?  You can all the controls to achieve a private list with the
> features you describe.  If you want a little more control you can do it
> with Google Apps for Work, which makes it easier to clamp things on a
> defined boundary (the domain), rather than allowing arbitrary email
> addresses to sign up to the lists.  You could still reject requests to
> join, or disallow requests entirely and hand-manage the list, the Apps for
> Work tools just make it a bit easier, for a modest cost.  There's also a
> support contact then, should you choose to vacate and someone
> less-technical needs to click the right buttons in the future.
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>  but i'm getting pushback because our IT team is very small and prefers to
>>> minimize internal infrastructure and use hosted services wherever possible.
>>>
>>
>> So set up mailman + htdig on a Linode and send them an invoice for your
>> new hosted service.  :-)
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
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