Web-based mailing list administration on RMX

The Rule-based e-Mail eXchange system, also known as RMX, is a mail transfer agent that transfers emails based on user-defined rules, which are applied to a relational database. It is a novel way of sending email to various groups of people, compared to conventional email. However, the creation of the RMX operating environment is not simple and is relatively costly. Furthermore, in order to use the system, users must have a knowledge of the database and invoke the system using a command line interface. Consequently, RMX users cannot perform operations intuitively. To address these concerns, we develop two web applications to easily provide RMX as a service and RMX as a platform. As a result, users can intuitively deploy mailing lists using RMX and incorporate RMX to other web applications and utilize RMX with considerably reduced cost in the operating environment.