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This page contains answers to common questions handled by our support
staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as
questions.
Note: In these answers we will follow a few shorthand conventions for
describing user-interface procedures. Key combinations will be presented like this: Ctrl+Alt+Delete,
which means that you should press and hold down the Control key, the Alt key, and the
Delete key at the same time. Menu selections will be presented like this: File->Open,
which means that you should open the File menu, and then make the Open selection.
- What is the eSquire mailing list manager?
- Why reinvent the wheel?
- What majordomo features are not supported by eSquire?
- What features are new to eSquire?
- Is eSquire Y2K safe?
eSquire is my response to the majordomo mailing list manager. I have been running
a number of majordomo sites in recent years, and have found that remote administration is
painful at best, and wished to create a simple replacement for majordomo with some of the
nice features it supports.
During the development of this, I also decided to include support for autoreponders.
The two projects go together better than you might first think.
Because I'm a geek. No, seriously... Because I have been maintaining a
number of majordomo lists on a handful of sites, and have yet to see it done well.
Part of this may be my own ignorance. Another part is my own arrogance. I
know that if I'm having trouble maintaining lists with majordomo, others are too.
And if I can make it easy to use, it will be a success.
I have been running an eMail based game server pbmserv@gamerz.net
for ~5 years now. I know the eMail side of the equation pretty well. I have
been doing CGI development for about 4 years, and thought that I would merge the two
concepts.
Moderated lists are currently functional. But only just. I will be making
this function simpler to use in an upcoming release.
 | WWW based management of lists |
| Autoreponders(!) |
| Integrated support for MHonArc and HyperMail |
| Banned user support |
To the best of my knowledge, eSquire is Y2K safe. eSquire does no date processing
that goes across date boundries. Any time eSquire does do a date function, if uses a
4 digit year format to avoid any ambiguity.
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