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| released = {{Start date|1999|7|30}}<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-July/000004.html |title=Mailman 1.0 |first=Barry A. |last=Warsaw |date=30 July 1999 |accessdate=2008-12-09 |mailinglist=mailman-announce }}</ref> |
| released = {{Start date|1999|7|30}}<ref>{{cite mailing list |url=http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-July/000004.html |title=Mailman 1.0 |first=Barry A. |last=Warsaw |date=30 July 1999 |accessdate=2008-12-09 |mailinglist=mailman-announce }}</ref> |
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| latest release version = 2.1.18 |
| latest release version = 2.1.18-1 |
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| latest release date = {{release date|2014| |
| latest release date = {{release date|2014|05|06}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ |title=GNU.org |publisher=GNU.org |date=2014-05-06 |accessdate=2014-08-03}}</ref> |
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| latest preview version = 3.0b4 |
| latest preview version = 3.0b4 |
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| latest preview date = {{release date|2014|04|28}}<ref name="v3beta4">{{cite web|url=https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-April/000191.html |title=ANNOUNCE: The GNU Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview |publisher=Mail.python.org |date= |accessdate=2014-04-28}}</ref> |
| latest preview date = {{release date|2014|04|28}}<ref name="v3beta4">{{cite web|url=https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-April/000191.html |title=ANNOUNCE: The GNU Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview |publisher=Mail.python.org |date= |accessdate=2014-04-28}}</ref> |
Revision as of 09:39, 3 August 2014
Developer(s) | Barry Warsaw |
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Initial release | July 30, 1999[1] |
Stable release | 2.1.18-1
/ May 6, 2014[2] |
Preview release | 3.0b4
/ April 28, 2014[3] |
Repository | |
Written in | Mostly Python, some C |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Available in | Many languages |
Type | mailing list management (MLM) software |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | www |
GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.[4][5] Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Barry Warsaw. Mailman is free software, subject to the requirement of the GNU General Public License.[5]
History
A very early version of Mailman was written by John Viega while a graduate student, who then lost his copy of the source in a hard drive crash sometime around 1998.[6] Ken Manheimer at CNRI, who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, then took over development. When Manheimer left CNRI, Barry Warsaw took over. Version 3 has been under development since 2009, with the fourth beta released in 2014.[3]
Features
Mailman runs on Linux and most Unix-like systems, and requires Python 2.1.3 or newer. It 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 email digest modes, hide their email addresses from other members, etc.
- Mailing list archiver (Pipermail, the name is visible in the URLs[7]) inside the mailing list manager.
See also
References
- ^ Warsaw, Barry A. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-12-09.
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suggested) (help) - ^ "GNU.org". GNU.org. 2014-05-06. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ a b "ANNOUNCE: The GNU Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview". Mail.python.org. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ^ "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
- ^ a b "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
- ^ "MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
- ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Wayback.archive.org. Retrieved 2013-12-25.
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Further reading
Reviews
Other resources
- List Administrator's Guide
- "Mailman – An Extensible Mailing List Manager Using Python"; Ken Manheimer, Barry Warsaw, John Viega; presented at the 7th International Python Conference, Nov 10-13, 1998
- "Mailman: The GNU Mailing List Manager"; John Viega, Barry Warsaw, Ken Manheimer; presented at the 12th Usenix Systems Administration Conference (LISA '98), Dec 9, 1998
- Mailman Users Guide
- GNU Mailman chapter in The Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume 2
- Barry Warsaw presentation on Mailman 3 at PyCon US 2012