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GNU Mailman

Mailing list manager software

Summary

Mailing list manager software

Field	Value
name	GNU Mailman
logo	Gnu mailman logo2010.png
screenshot	Mailman-commandlineinterface.png
screenshot size	270px
caption	Mailman files
developer	Abhilash Raj
released
latest release version	{{multiple releases
branch1	3:
version1
date1
branch2	2:
version2	2.1.39
date2	2021-12-13
programming language	Mostly Python, some C
operating system	Unix-like
language	Many languages
genre	Mailing list management software
license	3: GPL-3.0-or-later
2: GPL-2.0-or-later

https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ (refs: 3, 5)

2: GPL-2.0-or-later

GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.{{cite web| url = http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailman/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010207031943/http://freshmeat.net/projects/mailman/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 7, 2001 | title = freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman | access-date = 2009-02-11 }} Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj. Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

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. 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.

Web administration interface for GNU Mailman 2.1

Features

Mailman runs on most Unix-like systems, including Linux. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required Python-3.4 or newer. 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, although other archivers can be used instead. The archiver for Mailman 3 is HyperKitty.

References

Warsaw, Barry A.. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0".
"Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager".
(23 November 2017). "Time Stand Still".
"MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot".
(27 March 2015). "Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists". lwn.net.
"Getting started with GNU Mailman". mailman.readthedocs.org.
"Pipermail". amk.ca.
"Developer Resources". gnu.org.

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