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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
INTRODUCTION
This is GNU Mailman, a mailing list management system distributed
under the GNU Public License (GPL). The name of this project is
spelled "Mailman" with a leading capital `M' but with a lower case
second `m'.
Mailman is written primarily in Python, a free object-oriented
scripting language. There is some ANSI C code for security
purposes.
Mailman was originally developed by John Viega. Subsequent
development (through version 1.0b3) was by Ken Manheimer. Further
work towards the 1.0 final release was a group effort, with the
core contributors being: Barry Warsaw, Ken Manheimer, Scott
Cotton, Harald Meland, and John Viega. Version 1.0 and beyond
have been primarily maintained by Barry Warsaw with contributions
from many; see the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file for details.
The Mailman home page is
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
which is mirrored at
http://www.list.org
Mailman requires Python 1.5.2 or greater, which can be downloaded
from
http://www.python.org
You will also need an ANSI C compiler; gcc (the GNU C compiler)
works just fine. Mailman currently works only on Unix-alike
operating systems (e.g. Solaris, GNU/Linux, etc.).
See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. If you are
upgrading from a previous version of Mailman, you need to read the
UPGRADING file for important information.
FEATURES
Read the NEWS file for a list of changes since version 0.9. Read
the TODO file for our (extensive) wish list. You can see Mailman
in action at
http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo
Mailman has most of the standard features you'd expect in a
mailing list manager, and more:
- Web based list administration for nearly all tasks. Web based
subscriptions and user configuration management. A customizable
"home page" for each mailing list.
- Privacy features such as moderation, open and closed list
subscription policies.
- Automatic web based archiving built-in with support for private
and public archives, and hooks for external archivers.
- Per-user configuration optional digest delivery for either
MIME-compliant or RFC 934 style "plain text" digests.
- Integrated mail/Usenet gateways.
- Integrated auto-replies.
- Majordomo-style email based commands.
- Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
- Integrated spam detection.
- An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
- Support for virtual domains.
REQUIREMENTS
The default mail delivery mechanism uses a direct SMTP connection
to whatever mail transport agent you have running on port 25. You
can thus use Mailman with any such MTA, however the script
bin/newlist still generates sendmail style aliases (this will be
fixed eventually). You can also configure Mailman to submit
messages to your MTA via command line invocation, although there
are security considerations in going that route.
Mailman works with any web server that supports CGI. The HTML it
generates is pretty pedestrian and stingy on the graphics so it
should be friendly to most web browsers.
You will need root access on the machine hosting your Mailman
installation in order to complete some of the configuration
steps. See the INSTALL file for details.
GETTING STARTED QUICKLY
These instructions assume that you are sitting in a shell in the
install directory (by default /home/mailman).
Once you've installed Mailman according to the INSTALL file, you
can create your first list by running the program bin/newlist.
bin/newlist will print out some aliases that you should add to
your /etc/aliases file (if you're running a sendmail compatible
MTA; see the various README files for more specific information).
Next you should visit the your new list's admin page and set the
various configuration options that you want.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Chris Kolar has made a list owner-oriented manual available from
the following URL
http://www.aurora.edu/~ckolar/mailman/
There are also several mailing lists that can be used as resources
to help you get going with Mailman.
Mailman-Announce
A read-only list for release announcements an other important
news.
http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-announce
Mailman-Users
An open list for users of Mailman, for posting questions or
problems related to installation, use, etc. We'll try to keep
the deep technical discussions off this list.
http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman-Developers
An open list for those of you interested in helping develop
Mailman's future direction. This list will contain in-depth
technical discussions.
Mailman-I18N
An open list for the discussion of the Mailman
internationalization effort. Multi-lingual patches are
available and will be integrated into the standard
distribution after the 2.0 release.
Mailman-Checkins
A read-only list which is an adjunct to the public anonymous
CVS repository. You can stay on the bleeding edge of Mailman
development by subscribing to this list.
The Mailman project is coordinated on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman
You should use SourceForge to report bugs and to upload patches.
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