GNU Mailman
 | |
 Command line interface of Mailman | |
| Developer(s) | Barry Warsaw |
|---|---|
| Initial release | July 30, 1999[1] |
| Stable release | 2.1.14
/ September 20, 2010[2] |
| Preview release | 3.0b1
/ March 24, 2012[3] |
| Written in | Mostly Python, some C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Available in | Many languages |
| Type | Mailing lists |
| 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, distributed under the GNU General Public License.[5]
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[6] Ken Manheimer at CNRI, who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, then took over development. When Ken left CNRI, Barry Warsaw took over. Version 3 has been under development since 2009, with a first beta released in 2012.[3]
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 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.
{{cite mailing list}}: Unknown parameter|mailinglist=ignored (|mailing-list=suggested) (help) - ^ GNU.org
- ^ a b RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1
- ^ "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.
- ^ http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.amk.ca/python/unmaintained/pipermail.html
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 Internation 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