Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.
Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.
Mailman is written primarily in Python. Mailman’s web and email user interface should be compatible with just about any mail reader or web browser, although a mail reader that is MIME aware will be beneficial. You do not need Java, JavaScript, or any other fancy plugins.
Key Features
- 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, private membership rosters, and sender-based filters.
- 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 1153 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, and MIME-based content filtering.
- An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
- Support for virtual domains.
Website: www.list.org
Support:
Developer: proofpoint
License: Sendmail License
Mailman is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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