List Servers

Looking to start one

[u4eas]

Hello...

Our office is thinking about starting a list server, but no one here knows much about them. If anyone could recommend something I would greatly appreciate it. We run our own servers in house so we would have to be able to install something locally. BTW we have Windows based servers...

Thanks

u4ea

[txbakers]

Do you mean mailing list servers? If so, I use the Merak mail server from IceWarp. Very happy with it.

[u4eas]

We want to have a mailing list thats opt in. People then can submit a question, idea etc... then it goes to everyone on the list. Then people can reply to that ect... Kind of like an emailable version of a forum.

[txbakers]

Yes, you want a mail server then.

Read the help files that come with it so you can tell subscribers how to opt-in and opt-out, etc.

[Romeo]

There are listserver products available for professional list handling.
You may want to look at lsoft.com for the professional LISTSERV, which originally evolved decades ago in the old EARN/BITNET ages (~1985).
Other products which come into my mind are the
MAILMAN (sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/, under GNU license) and MAJORDOMO (greatcircle.com/majordomo/)

I don't use any of these products on my sites, so no recommendation is meant by mentioning these products above, I just remember them serving lists which I subscribed once.
I also have not checked, if they are available for Windows.

Regards,
R.