Why use Mailman?
kentr - July 11, 2009 - 03:49
| Project: | Mailman Manager |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm unclear on why someone would choose to use Mailman rather than the built-in Drupal Notifications system with Listhandler / Mailhandler / MailToWeb.
Is an issue of volume of emails? What else am I missing?
Thanks.
#1
If you use notifications then you get an email that says that some content is updated on the site. You must then visit the site to post a reply.
With mailman you can reply via email and, if mailhandler and listhandler and mailman are configured correctly, the inbound email can be added to the forum post as a comment.
Mailman also permits subscriptions via email which would be hard to achieve with forum+notifications alone.
It all depends on your requirements.
James Keeline