Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?

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Groups.io

I'm on a list or two that are run through https://groups.io/ and it works well. I also run a few private mailing lists on mailman and am loath to ever apply patches to that machine - it is complicated to set up, but works fine once done. In a greenfield implementation a docker installation might be better https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/docker.html.

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mlmmj

Hello, idk ... Personally I still use GNU mailman - but version 2, not the more current version 3. why!? idk, version 3 seems unnecessary "bloated" in comparison to the older and "somewhat" easier-to-use version 2. But for a new setup, I would definitely go for example with mlmmj - I'm even considering migration to it from my aging mailman2 setup :)) * https://mlmmj.org/ just my 0.02€.

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Discourse

A lot of communities use [Discourse ](https://discourse.org). [LPSF](https://forum lpsf.org) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued. Some of the advantages are that it's open source, self-hostable, and can be configured to work as both a traditional mailing list and modern forum.

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Mail-List.com

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Gaggle Mail

I did some research on the topic and focused on minimizing the cost per member (we are only a group of 5), simple UI, and having a searchable archive for all emails and having all the attachments indexed in an archive. I settled on https://gaggle.email/ It is not the most fully featured, there is one that allowed to tag discussions that seemed very appealing, but out of budget. The other ones I found are:.

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