Mail list application without mailserver?

Google Groups would be the obvious first choice. Is this an announcement-only (one-way) thing, or something more interactive?

To run Mailman, you will need to set up a mail server. How simple or complicated it is doesn't matter: it just needs to work for receiving and sending mail.

@hoopycat:

Google Groups would be the obvious first choice. Is this an announcement-only (one-way) thing, or something more interactive?
What I want actually is something like mail alias. So if somebody wants to send an email to the group group@email.com is used. There is not need to be able to reply to this email. Reply all is good enough.

But I want

• this group to be private/closed

• members can manage their memebership

• admin can add users

• can create subgroups

Can I do something like that using Google Groups?

@hoopycat:

To run Mailman, you will need to set up a mail server. How simple or complicated it is doesn't matter: it just needs to work for receiving and sending mail.

I found this interesting post http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-use … 59317.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg59317.html

Google Groups can do that (with the possible exception of "subgroups", which I'm not familiar with as a feature)… from http://groups.google.com/, click on "Create a group…" and pick "Restricted" for the access level.

That post on the mailman-users list pretty much sums up the situation. You need some way to get e-mails from people to Mailman, and some way to get e-mails from Mailman to people. No real way to do that short of setting up a mail server.