On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 10:28, Dennis Dryden ddryden@gmail.com wrote:
You could try discourse, it has a feature that allows people to use email as the interface if they don't want to use a browser.
I'll take a look, thanks.
Maybe I should better explain my objective though.
At present, emails that need to go to everyone, such as meeting minutes or treasurer reports, are sent as email with all recipients (~25) in the To: line. That works and is what everyone is used to. But it has some issues:
- To send an email to everyone means finding a recent one that (say) the treasurer has sent out, and copying all the recipients from it. It's cumbersome and error prone, and not great on a mobile.
- When someone changes their email, or leaves/joins the group, for some time afterwards the copy+paste method will get the wrong recipient list by not picking the right email to copy from, so people will be included who shouldn't be or missed who should be included.
- Sometimes emails are sent to "everyone" plus "others" (eg recipients of money raised by the charity). It's far too easy for them to end up copy+pasted into an unrelated email.
So I'm trying very hard to hide the "mailing" list aspect of it. A simple forward of email to everyone@<charity> would work except it's open to spam (and a bit messy to maintain). So the idea of using a mailing list like mailman was for the filtering of emails outside the recipient list more than anything else.
I have installed mailman3 as an experiment and have it all up and running, web interface and all, but there doesn't seem to be a way to maintain the membership list which means I've got stuck (and the docs for mailman3 are mostly absent as far as I can tell). Maybe I need to try the older mailman versions but I know their web interfaces aren't very friendly for non-tech users I might ask to help admin the list.