GNU Mailman is a computer

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from the

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for managing

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. Mailman is coded primarily in

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and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj. Mailman is

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, licensed under the

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History

A very early version of Mailman was written by

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while a graduate student, who then lost his copy of the source in a hard drive crash sometime around 1998. Ken Manheimer at

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(CNRI), who was looking for a replacement for

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, 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. Mailman admin interface

Features

Mailman runs on most

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-like systems, including

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. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required Python-3.4 or newer. It works with Unix-style mail servers, such as

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, Postfix,

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and

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. Features include: * A customizable publicly-accessible

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for each

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. *

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for list administration, archiving of messages,

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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 *

-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

External links

*
Mailman Documentation

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mailman (Gnu) GNU Project software Free software programmed in Python Free mailing list software Mailing list software for Linux 1999 software

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