Legacy Self-Hosted Mailing List Software Feels Heavy and Complicated
A developer describes existing self-hosted mailing list managers like GNU Mailman and Sympa as still heavy, complex to deploy, and outdated in 2026, requiring separate databases, Redis, and frontend servers. This reflects an ongoing gap for a modern, single-binary, protocol-native mailing list tool that stays fully self-hosted.
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