Mailman (GNU)

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GNU Mailman
Image:Mailman.jpg

Command line interface of Mailman
Developer(s) Barry Warsaw
Initial release July 30, 1999 (1999-07-30)[1]
Stable release 2.1.12 / 2009-2-23; 4 months ago[2]
Written in Mostly Python, some C
Operating system Unix-like
Available in Many languages
Development status Mature
Type Mailing lists
License GNU General Public License
Website gnu.org/software/mailman

GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU project for managing electronic mailing lists.[3][4]

Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Barry Warsaw. Mailman is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License.[4]

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[edit] History

A very early version of Mailman was written by John Viega while a grad student, who then lost his copy of the source in a hard drive crash sometime around 1998[5]. Ken Manheimer at CNRI, who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, then took over development. When Ken left CNRI, Barry Warsaw took over.

[edit] Features

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. It runs on GNU/Linux and most Unix-like systems, and requires Python 2.1.3 or newer. GNU Mailman works with Unix style mail servers such as Postfix, Sendmail and qmail.

Features include:

  • A Web browser interface for list administration, archiving of messages, spam filtering.
  • A customizable home page for each mailing list.
  • Integrated bounce detection and automatic handling of bouncing addresses.
  • Integrated spam filters
  • Majordomo-style email based commands.
  • Multiple list owners and moderators.
  • Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting rules.
  • Support for virtual domains.
  • Web based subscribing and unsubscribing. Users can temporarily disable their accounts, select digest modes, hide their email addresses from other members, etc.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Warsaw, Barry A. (1999-07-30). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce mailing list. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-July/000004.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-09. 
  2. ^ http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
  3. ^ "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman". http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailman/. Retrieved on 2009-02-11. 
  4. ^ a b "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/. Retrieved on 2009-02-11. 
  5. ^ "MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot". http://myriadicity.net/Sundry/MyMailmanRole. Retrieved on 2009-02-11. 

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