Snitz Forums software vs GNU's Mailman - Posted (2084 Views)
dcampbe11
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Looking for a list of functional differences between the products:

Snitz Forum and GNU's Mailman ( http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
Mailman is decribed as sofware for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. It is wrtitten in Python on runs only in a Linux or Unix patform.

Also looking for any pros and cons regarding each solution.
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RichardKinser
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Totally different software for totally different applications.<
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Pro's for Snitz.
Its a searchable database of posts. Easier to setup. Supported by community of developers
Threaded discussions
Encrypted passwords
etc. etc. etc.<
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Mailman and Snitz are similiar enough in purpose, they are programs that allow people to enter discussions and share opinions, each has unique features.

Depends on the pace and extras you want to have available which one you might decide to use. Perhaps you can use Snitz to replicate Mailmans features.
If so you can introduce the other features of Snitz if you want to 'upgrade' later. Polls, differing levels of access, web front end plus accessible code are good examples of Snitz PROS.
You can probably replicate MM features in other forum software for different platforms too.
For what purpose are you considering these two things? Interesting post!<
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a forum is not a mail discussion list or a newsletter, as Richard said they are very different with different purposes<
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I was thinking about how you could maybe interact with Snitz as you do with a Mailman or Netsys list, hiding its other capabilities until you wanted to add them.
I'm interested in why parent considers the two suitable for the same job :)<
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without writing some server side dll's it is not possible to interact with Snitz the same as you do a mailinglist, they have a totally diferent design concept and architecture.<
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Huwr, you are right, and another paradigm shafted :)

I guess though there isn't a problem making this idea work on an 'in-house' type environment without much added investment?
Going off topic, but we recently upgraded our mass mailing software ( we use for subscribers/staff only, not spam or anything) and that has an option for the sender to craft messages to post to forums, (which i thought was dodgy).
But, we are also using outlook messages to post form data to basic web apps, and I appreciate this is different, and other programs may be better, and also appreciate any discussion on the possibilities.<
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In order for a forum to accept and process emails, it would require either a custom POP client or a custom SMTP server to collect and process the mail sent to and from the forum, or a web interface building for the mailing list server.
The first time I came across Snitz (many moons ago now) my client was looking to migrate a mailing list to a forum but wanted to keep the mail functionality, so I wrote a custom server app which did exactly that, it collected mail from a mailbox, processed it and posted the topics/replies to the forum, and turned forum messages into emails to send back out. It took the best part of a month to write and test, it was used for approx 3 weeks before it was shut off because nobody used it.<
 
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