ezmlm is a modern mailing list manager. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of recipients with minimal delay. It allows automated additions and subtractions from the subscriber database.
In addition, it may keep an archive of messages. It can also impose restrictions on what may be sent or retrieved and by whom. Some mailing list managers keep a database of subscriber information and tailor the message specifically for each subscriber. ezmlm sends the same message to all subscriber. This is much more efficient. The benefits to the user are that on average posts to ezmlm lists reach subscribers much faster than they would with other mailing list manager.
ezmlm is highly automated. Virtually everything can be done simply, rapidly, and without human intervention. ezmlm encodes your address and the message number in the return address to automatically handle bounces, i.e. messages returned to sender because they couldn’t be delivered to the subscriber.
ezmlm-idx is an add-on to ezmlm.
Features include:
- Basic message distribution.
- Subscriber address handling.
- Message archiving (single quoted message retrieval only).
- Bounce handling.
- Multi-message threaded archive retrieval.
- Digests.
- Remote administration.
- Message and subscription moderation.
- Subscriber-only restrictions.
- Message trailer.
- Subject prefix.
- Subscriber name storage.
- Customizable setup.
- Multi-language.
- MIME support.
- Case-insensitive subscriber address storage.
- Support for distributed lists.
- Can now be compiled with MySQL support for centrally administrated distributed lists with binaries that autosense use of SQL or standard ezmlm databases.
Website: untroubled.org/ezmlm
Support: FAQ
Developer: Vipul Ved Prakash, Chad Norwood, and others
License: Artistic License
ezmlm is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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