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What is Mailman? |
Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like
Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives
each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe,
unsubscribe, etc. over the web. Even the list manager can administer
his or her list entirely from the web. Mailman also integrates most things
people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving,
mail-to-news
gateways, and so on. See the
features page
for a brief overview of features. Mailman has all of the features you expect from such a product, plus integrated support for the web (including web based archiving), automated bounce handling and integrated spam prevention. Mailman is free software. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Mailman is brought to you by the Mailman Cabal, currently composed of the following core developers: Barry Warsaw, Harald Meland, Ken Manheimer, Scott Cotton, and John Viega. Mailman was originally written by John Viega. The Cabal would like to thank the following other developers for their important contributions: The Dragon De Monsyne, Timothy O'Malley, Balazs Nagy, Michael Mclay, Greg Stein, Gergely Madarasz, Andrew Kuchling, Jeff Hahn. We have a extensive wish list and welcome anyone else who would like to contribute! |
Getting Mailman |
Before you can run Mailman, you need to download and install the
Python
programming language (version 1.5 or later).
Version (1.1, released on Nov 5 1999) is the first GNU release. It is available here. A number of papers and other material presented at the 7th International Python Conference and the 12th Usenix LISA conference are available here. |
Support |
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is
available to answer most questions. For issues not covered in the
FAQ, please post your questions to the
Mailman-Users
mailing list. You might also want to check out the
Mailman Users mailing list archive to see if your problem has
already been addressed.
Please use the Jitterbug database to submit bug reports to the core developers. |
Mailing Lists |
We have several mailing lists devoted to Mailman, which also provide a
nice demonstration of Mailman!
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Mailman in the News |
Mailman was featured in a
cover story article in the March 1999 issue
of SunWorld. The article was written by Cameron Laird and Kathryn
Soraiz.
Mailman was briefly mentioned in a ZDNet article on Linux. This was picked up by MSNBC (I won't comment on the irony there). |