Majordomo
Majordomo is a mailing list manager (MLM). Majordomo controls
a list of addresses for some mail transport system (like sendmail or
smail) to handle. Majordomo itself performs no mail delivery (though it
has scripts to format and archive messages).
It is written in Perl
and has a long history, coming into
popular use since 1992, predating the popularity of the web
browser, in an era when many people did have access to email but still
didn't have web access.
Commands are sent to Majordomo via email to handle all aspects
of list
maintenance. Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can be
performed remotely by email, requiring no intervention upon the
postmaster of the list site.
Features include:
- Supports various types of lists, including moderated
- All list management activities are handled by email, so
list owners don't need access to Majordomo server machine
- Supports archival and remote retrieval of messages
- Supports digests
- Modular design - use only the features you need
- Written in Perl
- easily customizable and expandable
- Includes support for FTPMAIL
- Supports confirmation of subscriptions, to protect against
forged subscription requests
- List filters, based on header or body regular expressions
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