I was looking for a way to permit members to email each other as a group. I wanted to expand on the restriction of private messaging - one on one. This was the only way to go in Joomla.

This app makes an easy connection to MailMan, which is better known as a listserv or a discussion group: i.e. users join a group and each can broadcast an email to everyone by addressing the email to the group (or list) email. MailMain then relays the email to everyone.

Your web hosting service will set MailMan for you...free.

What is notable here is the easy, user friendly interface that this app creates. You simply click on a link and you're subscribed. That's it. The app takes your email address from your login and performs all of the subscription work on the MailMan app that your host installs. Normally, you'd have to navigate through a cumbersome subscription page to get subscribed...these pages are always written by programmers who make it look complicated.

That is the beauty of MailMan2. Simplicity and usability!

Great customer support, too.

Look. Operationally, YANC knocks the socks off of Letterman. I know, I've tried both and had trouble getting Letterman through the filters on a lot of company servers...being pegged as a spammer.

YANC's HTMl worked fine for me and I like the statistics section a lot.

Here's the problem. I inadvertantly installed the 1.4 version first and created my subscriber data base by hand. I upgraded to the 1.5 Beta...which is the only YANC you should have... It uses a completely different SQL database which is also laid out in an absolutely different order... so, you can't dump the old database into the new. The 1.4 only exports in XML format. The 1.5 Beta only imports in the CSV format... The XML export contains more data than a CSV...such as whether the subscriber is confirmed and the date of registration. Hello?... Did anybody at the keyboard not see the headaches you were creating? This is a major database / subscriber migration problem.

YANC is good, but I'm YANC'd off at the moment.

The stale dates on the reviews here should've been a clue. This component does not work...at least not on the current version of Joomla!

It won't log. It won't even allow you to enter or edit an IP in the blocking list. It just takes up space...but, fortunately, it will uninstall.

Too bad. I could use a good logger to watch over the herd.