Novice Exim user wants to set up a mailing list

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:29:37PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2024-02-19 Landon via Pkg-exim4-users <pkg-exim4-users at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > So... How difficult is it to set this up for someone who knows
> > virtually nothing about Exim?
> > Is there an up to date guide somewhere on how to configure Exim to do this?
> > I don't mind reading about how to set this up, but I also don't want
> > to have to read a 500 page book to figure it out.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Nowadays running a mail server especially with mailing lists is really
> quite complicated. It is not an exim specific problem. If you generally
> knew what standard compliance and settings were necessary to run a mail
> server in a way that e.g. google accepts the mail and does not mark it
> as spam (e.g. with postfix) this knowledge would probably translate
> quite well to exim, its documentation is still good.

The OP's major misunderstanding seems to be that it is needed to have
additional software, in addition to exim, to handle the mailing list.
While exim can be used as a distribution system, this way is rather
uncommon with mailing lists. Exim never cares for Subscribe,
unsubscribe, archive etc and what else is needed to run a mailing list.

And yes, this is rocket science, seriously.

Greetings
Marc

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