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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:34:25 -0400
> From: Steve Litt <slitt@???>
> To: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] mailing list software
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> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:37:39 -0400
> Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@???> wrote:
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> > JeremyBekka C wrote:
> > > I have been using my gmail account to read this mailing list but I
> > > would like to move over to a program specifically designed for
> > > mailing lists. I found mailman and it looks like it would work
> > > well. Just wondering if I could get some suggestions about would
> > > program would be best to use with this and other mailing lists.
> > >
> >
> > Methinks you might be confusing things just a trifle:
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> > - mailman (and majordomo, and sympa, and listserve....) are MAILING
> > LIST MANAGERS - they're what keeps track of all the people on a list,
> > and distributes mail to them - you don't use them to read mail
> > (except that some provide web-based access to archives)
> >
> > - you READ mailing list, and SEND to them, from a basic email client
> > - like gmail, or Thunderbird, or Outlook, or Mac's "Mail" program -
> > all of which include features for sorting and filtering mail, and to
> > a lesser or greater degree automatically displaying message threads
> > and/or putting list mail into folders
> >
> > If you're not happy with the gmail web interface, I'd suggest playing
> > with different clients that can support "IMAP" access to your mailbox
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> Yes, and if you like simple, and don't care about viewing HTML email, I
> suggest you use Claws-Mail like I do. Much faster than Thunderbird,
> works very well with IMAP.
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> SteveT
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:32:29 +0200
> From: Teodoro Santoni <asbrasbra@???>
> To: JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel@???>
> Cc: dng@???
> Subject: Re: [DNG] mailing list software
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> 2015-10-02 18:30 GMT+02:00, JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel@???>:
> > I have been using my gmail account to read this mailing list but I would
> > like to move over to a program specifically designed for mailing lists. I
> > found mailman and it looks like it would work well. Just wondering if I
> > could get some suggestions about would program would be best to use with
> > this and other mailing lists.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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> Hi, they told you already that mailman won't do, so I'll pass to
> suggesting you the aforementioned Claws, or any text-based mail
> client, like mutt or cone.
> In my experience, any kind of 2 or 3-pane email client (web or native)
> isn't unconfortable for reading newsletters or mailing lists. On gmail
> you can improve a bit things filtering everything from a mailing list
> into a separate label, but then you discover procmail or fdm + mutt or
> claws and laugh at gmail...
> And things, imho, can be further tinkered (for example, you'll forget
> the 90% of anything you discuss or lurk on internet, at the same time
> on maildir and mbox all those past posts slow a lot the loading of
> your client...)
>
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>
I will have to look into Claws-mail and see what I think.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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