The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Jonathan,

If this is your need, then not really.

Sympa has limited newsletter features: it can send a web page, that you 
would have composed somewhere else. But it does it right, in 
multipart/related, so you don't have remote images in the mail you send.

However you can't compose the HTML newsletter in Sympa.

And you can certainly not use Sympa to track click counts from email 
receipients which is, on my opinion and from a privacy respect point of 
view, a good thing.

I am not aware that Mailman could do that either, but I did not check 
Mailman features since a long time.

Regards,

David

On 06/10/2022 06:17, Jonathan Aquilina (via en Mailing List) wrote:
> Hey Phil,
>
> Let me then ask a different question. Can Sympa do what Mailchimp does and 
> send out lets say news letters etc? Does it have a GUI to where one can 
> create mailshots or newsletters with ease?
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Aquilina
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@concealed <address@concealed> On Behalf Of 
> Phil Stracchino
> Sent: 05 October 2022 17:08
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [en@sympa] How secure is sympa vs mailman
>
> On 10/5/22 01:44, Jonathan Aquilina (via en Mailing List) wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am thinking of potentially setting up sympa to manage my mailing
> > lists for mailshots etc. I have one question how secure is sympa vs
> > mailmain as a mailing list host?
> Honestly ...  that's the wrong question.  The relative security of the list 
> management software in use is probably secondary in either case to the 
> security of the host.  It is far more likely that either list service will be 
> compromised via some attack against the host than by an attack against the 
> service itself.  Neither Sympa nor Mailman has currently known 
> vulnerabilities as long as they are running on a properly secured host system.
>
> If you're making a decision between Sympa and Mailman based on security, 
> you're probably making your decision for the wrong reasons.  Look at which 
> fits better into your environment and which is the easier for you to install, 
> configure, and maintain.
>
> Personally I ran Mailman 2 for a long time, but abandoned it for Sympa during 
> the long, long period during which Mailman 2 was no longer being actively 
> maintained, but Mailman 3 wasn't ready for release yet and migration 
> documentation was unclear.
--
"Mieux vaut viser la perfection et la rater que viser la médiocrité et 
l'atteindre."
- Francis Blanche

David Verdin
Chef de Projet Collaboratif
Département PROduits NUMériques
Direction des Services Applicatifs
RENATER - Rennes

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