tinylist is a lightweight mailing list manager written in Go. It's easy to deploy, and easy to manage. It was written as an antithesis of the experience of setting up other mailing list software.
tinylist is controlled by emailing tinylist with a command in the subject.
The following commands are available:
help- Reply with a list of valid commandslists- Reply with a list of available mailing listssubscribe list-id- Subscribe to receive mail sent to the given listunsubscribe list-id- Unsubscribe from receiving mail sent to the given list
No. If you'd like an online browsable archive of emails, I recommend looking into tools such as hypermail, which generate HTML archives from a list of emails.
If you'd like to advertise the lists on your website, it's recommended to do
that manually, in whatever way looks best. Subscribe buttons can be achieved
with a mailto: link.
I'm only familiar with postfix, for which there are instructions below. The
gist of it is: have your mail server pipe emails for any mailing list addresses
to tinylist message. tinylist will handle any messages sent to it this way,
and reply using the configured SMTP server.
Some people prefer mailing lists for patch submission and review, some people want to play mailing-list based games such as nomic, and some people are just nostalgic.
First, you'll need to build and install the tinylist binary:
go get github.com/eXeC64/tinylist
Second, you'll need to write a config to either /etc/tinylist.ini
or /usr/local/etc/tinylist.ini as follows:
You can also specify a custom config file location by invoking tinylist
with the -config flag: -config=/path/to/config.ini
# File for event and error logging. tinylist does not rotate its logs
# automatically. Recommended path is /var/log/mail/tinylist
# You'll need to set permissions on it depending on which account your MTA
# runs tinylist as.
log = /path/to/logfile
# An sqlite3 database is used for storing the email addresses subscribed to
# each mailing list. Recommended location is /var/db/tinylist.db
# You'll need to set permissions on it depending on which account your MTA
# runs tinylist as.
database = /path/to/sqlite/database
[bot]
# Address tinylist should receive user commands on
command_address = [email protected]
# SMTP details for sending mail
smtp_hostname = "smtp.example.com"
smtp_port = 25
smtp_username = "tinylist"
smtp_password = "hunter2"Create a list by invoking
tinylist create [email protected] --name="Go programming" --description="General discussion of Go programming" --bcc [email protected] --bcc [email protected]
tinylist create [email protected] --name="Announcements" --description="Important announcements" --poster [email protected] --poster [email protected]
tinylist create [email protected] --name "fight club" --flag subscribers_only --flag hiddenLastly, you need to hook the desired incoming addresses to tinylist:
In /etc/aliases:
tinylist: "| /path/to/bin/tinylist message"
And run newaliases for the change to take effect.
This creates an alias that pipes messages sent to the tinylist alias to the
tinylist command.
The final step is telling your preferred MTA to route mail to this address when needed.
For postfix edit /etc/postfix/aliases and add:
[email protected] tinylist
[email protected] tinylist
[email protected] tinylist
[email protected] tinylist
and restart postfix.
Congratulations, you've now set up 3 mailing lists of your own!
tinylist is made available under the BSD-3-Clause license.