I need to set up a mailing list and was wondering if anyone has some suggestions on any available software I can use, rather than writing it from scratch.

Here's a list of the features I'm looking for:


API for adding users via my website (i.e. user enters info into a form)
Ability to add users through an admin interface (again, I at least need an API and I can program a front-end)
Ability for users to remove themselves from the list (pretty standard capability I'm sure)
Ability to manage multiple email addresses, e.g. one for news, one for products/services, etc., and allow users to subscribe to one or more of these at once (probably through the website interface)
Spam prevention (especially if I have a web front-end, I don't need spam bots nailing it for hours with thousands of random email addresses)
Referal capabilities to allow users to refer friends, and also track who referred each user


I'm probably better off writing this from scratch because of my needs, but I figured I would ask first before going off and reinventing the wheel.

Thanks,
Dustin

I tried phplist at first, and thought it was good. Until I tried dada mail. Dada just stomps phplist.

http://mojomail.sourceforge.net/

FYI it does everything you've listed.

If you'd like to see what it looks like to the user, i've got a default install. this is exactly how it comes out of the box. Join the beta list. then you can see what old emails look like (it digests them) you can join then unsubscribe etc. Don't worry i don't use it much. haven't sent a message to it since January
http://www.e-referrer.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/

I've been using PHPList for the last few months. I don't have any complaints. :) http://www.phplist.com/

I've also used CCMail in the past. Again, it's a very powerful application. http://www.cicoandcico.com/products.php?option=ccmail

I've never tried CCmail but I'm going to do some testing.

Thanks for the link Jamie!

I've used CCMail a few months ago.
As a free product, it is a very powerful one (as someone mentioned above :)) - simple to install, offering groups and users managing, HTML editor and many more features. Ok, I'll stop here, don't want to sound like advertising. You can test it yourselves - it is worth trying out.:agree:

I tried phplist at first, and thought it was good. Until I tried dada mail. Dada just stomps phplist.

http://mojomail.sourceforge.net/

FYI it does everything you've listed.

If you'd like to see what it looks like to the user, i've got a default install. this is exactly how it comes out of the box. Join the beta list. then you can see what old emails look like (it digests them) you can join then unsubscribe etc. Don't worry i don't use it much. haven't sent a message to it since January
http://www.e-referrer.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi/

Fastnoc,

I got very interested about the comparison phplist vs. dada mail. I am currently using phplist and if dada is so powerful, I wouldn't like to miss it out...Would you be so kind to expand on them both, please? :)

Wow you guys are awesome, thanks for all the replies! Looks like I have some testing to do..

-Dustin

FYI, it doesn't look like any of these have referral tracking capabilities, unless I'm mistaken. However, it might not be too terribly difficult to add this to dada mail since it's all written in perl, but then I'm stuck on that customized version.

Any other ideas/suggestions before I look into dada mail?