Summary of what SmartList provides:
+ The overseeable management of an arbitrary number of mailinglists
+ Convenient and simple creation of new mailinglists
+ Convenient and simple removal of existing mailinglists
+ Fully automated subscription/unsubscription/help-request processing
(no operator intervention needed)
+ Enough intelligence to overcome the ignorance of some subscribers
(will direct subscribe and unsubscribe requests away from the
regular list and automatically onto the -request address)
+ No hardwired format for (un)subscribe requests (i.e. new subscribers
need not be educated, unsubscribing users do not need to remember
any particular syntax)
+ *Intelligent* autoremoval of addresses from the list that cause
too many bounces
+ Submissions can be limited to people on the accept list (which could
be the current list of subscribers)
+ The fully automated subscription mechanism allows for a reject list
of unwanted subscribers and a general address screening mechanism
which allows you to control exactly who is allowed to subscribe
+ Optional implicit subscription upon first submission to the list
+ MIME-compliant auto-digest-generation (configurable per list)
+ Joint management of several mailinglists possible
+ Customisation per mailinglist or mailinglist group possible (simply
remove or create the desired links)
+ A listmaintainer can be assigned per list; miscellaneous requests
that couldn't be handled by the list automatically are then
forwarded to his mail address (instead of being accumulated in
a file)
+ Allows for remote maintenance of any mailinglist by a
listmaintainer
+ Integrated archiving service
+ Integrated diagnostic aid to give hints to the maintainer about
possible problems
+ Moderated mailinglists with an arbitrary number of moderators
+ Automatically eliminates duplicate submissions
+ You can set up a mailinglist to function as a standalone mail
archive server
+ Extended MIME support (autorecognition, encapsulation and suitable
encoding of well known (and unknown) file formats)
+ The archive server can send arbitrarily long (even binary) files
in MIME-multipart mails
+ Provides rfc2369-compliant List- headers