GNU Mailman
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GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.<ref name="http://freshmeat.net">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="http://www.gnu.org">Template:Cite web</ref> Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj.<ref name="developer-announcement-2017">Template:Cite mailing list</ref> Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.<ref name="http://www.gnu.org"/>
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.<ref name="http://myriadicity.net">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name="lwn_mm3">Template:Cite web</ref>
Features
Mailman runs on most Unix-like systems, including Linux. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required Python-3.4 or newer.<ref name="mm_req">Template:Cite web</ref> 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,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> although other archivers can be used instead. The archiver for Mailman 3 is HyperKitty.<ref name="gnu_dev">Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
References
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
- GNU Mailman chapter in The Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume 2
- Barry Warsaw presentation on Mailman 3 at PyCon US 2012