Please suggest a mailing list product which can be installed on Linux/qmail, in budget of say $40-80.

Need following:

a) Option to subscribe/unsubscribe via web and email.
b) Only Admin (one person) can send email to mailing list.
c) No duplicates
d) Able to “delete” automatically:
a. Bounced emails
b. Unsubscribe requests

However, would prefer that emails-to-be-deleted should be put in separate file or DB, so that in future if those emails are again added, emails should not go.

e) Option to block “domain”. No email should go to *@somedomain.com
f) Should use SMTP for sending emails (not HTML’s mailto OR php’s mail() command. I have a notion that HTML or PHP’s mail() is very slow.
g) Multi-threading preferred (using qmail/linux)
h) Able to send emails to 5000 subscribers say in 30 minutes.

I think most of your requirements are available in phpList (freeware). Not sure about the SMTP feature.

Have you looked into ezmlm?

I do not know a lot of specifics about it (hey thats your job anyway), but I know it is rather robust and heavily used.

If you want to use a hosted service, I would suggest you to take a look at www.zinester.com

Also www.yourmailinglistprovider.com ( www.ymlp.com ) is one of the service providers that I can suggest you.

Sorry that I don't know any scripts, but I hope those two websites help you.

Good luck

Originally posted by jpaul
f) Should use SMTP for sending emails (not HTML’s mailto OR php’s mail() command. I have a notion that HTML or PHP’s mail() is very slow.

I don't think PHP's mail is slow (it simply calls the email program installed on the server). Anyway, the messages are always sent using SMTP. You can choose to send them directly to the recipient's mail server via SMTP or to send them via the email program installed on the server and letting it do the sending. I prefer the second option as the email program is specialized in sending/receiving mail (unlike a mailing list software), and is prepared to retry delivery if the recipient's server is down, for instance.