On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch wrote:
a) has experience hosting, and so can filter spam without hassle b) lets us use open-mesh.net instead of super-duper-mailing-host.com c) hosts open source gratis
a and b are must have, c would be nice.
I started going down the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_faci...
Codendi looks like a very "comprehensive" solution, probably excessive.
The following require that every list subscriber have "yet another username/password" and they all host mailing lists at mail-host.com:
sourceforge.net tigris.org launchpad.net
Another alternative is freelists.org, which only hosts @freelists.org, but does not require subscribers to log in to their site, ever. I found them because the Haiku OS project uses them.
There are others listed, but I feel like this is a wrong path. Now I'm looking at services listed at the Mailman wiki: http://wiki.list.org/display/COM/Mailman+hosting+services
A lot of these services are VPS, which tells me that they let the customer handle details like spam.
JPBerlin (http://www.jpberlin.de/) looks good, but I don't know any German. The Mailman like says "CEO Peer Heinlein is the maintainer of the german Mailman-translation and author of a book about secure mail-server administration."
Thielpark Systeme GmbH (http://www.thielpark.de/) I will contact this one. "Reliable Mailman hosting on Linux with per list templates/language files, MHonArc integration for archiving and searching, customization of templates to match look of your website. Address import from various data sources."
EMWD (http://www.emwd.com/mailman.html) looks like a regular webhost with better-than-average mailing list support. They claim to have spam filters in place, and they charge US$4/month. I emailed them regarding hosting with open-mesh.net
More later.
Jake