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Easiest way to set up a mailing list

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What is the easiest way to set up a mailing list? The goal is to send an email to one address, and it gets automatically re-sent to everyone who is currently subscribed to that list.

Ideally, the solution should:

  • Not require much technical expertise from the admin (no setting up your own mail server and configuring)
  • Allow recipients to subscribe and unsubscribe on their own, without action needed from list admin
  • Be able to handle a small number of recipients (less than 100-1000).
  • Be a free service
  • Not require creating onerous accounts (for example, Google phone verification, requiring street address, credit card on file, etc.) - accounts without too much information required are fine, piggybacking off an existing account (like Gmail) is also okay
  • Some sort of anti-spam countermeasure is okay, but I'd like to avoid something excessive like solving a captcha for each message sent

The goal is not to spam people. I can't really prove this, but feel free to recommend solutions that would not work well for spamming.

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manassehkatz‭ wrote 12 months ago

The answer will depend a lot on (a) whether you have a commercial hosting service available (many include mailing list capability - The Codidact organization uses that for newsletters), (b) what operating systems you have and/or are willing to install, (c) whether or not you have an email domain you control (as opposed to "a gmail address" or similar), whether you are willing to spend any money on it (on an ongoing basis). There are plenty of solutions - but most require either a server (virtual/hosted is OK) you control or a monthly/yearly service fee of some kind.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 12 months ago

Indeed it would. I tried to address these by adding points like "free service" and "not technically complex" - which in my mind would exclude commercial hosting and custom email domains.

As for the OS, I was thinking of some online service. If you're asking the OS, that sounds like you're about to recommend installing a mail server and all that, which would make it out of scope for my requirements and probably not a good answer.