GNU Mailman
Mailing list manager software
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GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.[4][3] Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj.[1] Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.[3]
| GNU Mailman | |
|---|---|
| |
 Mailman files | |
| Developer | Abhilash Raj[1] |
| Initial release | July 30, 1999[2] |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Mostly Python, some C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Available in | Many languages |
| Type | Mailing list management software |
| License | 3: GPL-3.0-or-later 2: GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
| Repository | |
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.[5] Ken Manheimer at Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, then took over development. When Manheimer left CNRI, Barry Warsaw took over. Mailman 3, the first major new version in over a decade, was released in April 2015.[6]
Features
Mailman runs on most Unix-like systems, including Linux. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required Python-3.4 or newer.[7] It works with Unix-style mail servers, such as Exim, Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. Features include:
- A customizable publicly-accessible Web page for each mailing list.
- Web application for list administration, archiving of messages, spam filtering, etc. Separate interfaces are available for users (for self-administration), moderators (to accept/reject list posts), and administrators.
- Support for multiple administrators and moderators for each list.
- Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting rules.
- Integrated bounce detection and automatic handling of bouncing addresses.
- Integrated spam filters
- Majordomo-style email based commands.
- Support for virtual domains.
- List archiving. The default archiver provided with Mailman 2 is Pipermail,[8] although other archivers can be used instead. The archiver for Mailman 3 is HyperKitty.[9]
