GNU Mailman

GNU Mailman
GNU Mailman
	Mailman files
Developer	Abhilash Raj
Release	July 30, 1999; 27 years ago
Stable release
3:	3.3.10 / 2024-10-01[±]
2:	2.1.39 / 2021-12-13
Written in	Mostly Python, some C
Operating system	Unix-like
Available in	Many languages
Type	Mailing list management software
License	3: GPL-3.0-or-later; 2: GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	www.list.org
Repository	gitlab.com/mailman ;

GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists. Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj. Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

History

A very early version of Mailman was written by John Viega while a graduate student, who then lost his copy of the source in a hard drive crash sometime around 1998. Ken Manheimer at Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, 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.

Features

Mailman runs on most Unix-like systems, including Linux. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required Python-3.4 or newer. It works with Unix-style mail servers, such as Exim, Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. Features include:

A customizable publicly-accessible Web page for each mailing list.
Web application for list administration, archiving of messages, spam 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
Majordomo-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

1 2 Warsaw, Barry (23 November 2017). "Time Stand Still". Mailman-Announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 5 September 2018.
↑ Warsaw, Barry A. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-12-09.
1 2 3 "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". gnu.org. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
↑ "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman". Archived from the original on February 7, 2001. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
↑ "MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
↑ "Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists". lwn.net. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
↑ "Getting started with GNU Mailman". mailman.readthedocs.org. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
↑ "Pipermail". amk.ca. Archived from the original on 13 February 2001. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
↑ "Developer Resources". gnu.org. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

External links

[developer-announcement-2017-1] 1 2 Warsaw, Barry (23 November 2017). "Time Stand Still". Mailman-Announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 5 September 2018.

[2] Warsaw, Barry A. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-12-09.

[GNU_Mailman_release-3] 1 2 3 "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". gnu.org. Retrieved 2025-02-01.

[http://freshmeat.net-4] "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman". Archived from the original on February 7, 2001. Retrieved 2009-02-11.

[http://myriadicity.net-5] "MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot". Retrieved 2009-02-11.

[lwn_mm3-6] "Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists". lwn.net. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.

[mm_req-7] "Getting started with GNU Mailman". mailman.readthedocs.org. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.

[8] "Pipermail". amk.ca. Archived from the original on 13 February 2001. Retrieved 2 February 2017.

[gnu_dev-9] "Developer Resources". gnu.org. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

v t e GNU Project
History	GNU Manifesto Free Software Foundation Europe India Latin America History of free software
Licenses	GNU General Public License linking exception font exception GNU Lesser General Public License GNU Affero General Public License GNU Free Documentation License GNAT Modified General Public License
Software	GNU (variants) Hurd Linux-libre glibc Bash coreutils findutils Build system GCC binutils GDB GRUB GNUstep GIMP Jami GNU Emacs GNU TeXmacs GNU Octave GNU Taler GNU R GSL GMP GNU Electric GNU Archimedes GNUnet GNU Privacy Guard Gnuzilla (IceCat) GNU Health GNUmed GNU LilyPond GNU Go GNU Chess Gnash Guix more...
Contributors	Benjamin Mako Hill Bradley M. Kühn Brian Fox Federico Heinz John Sullivan Richard M. Stallman
Other topics	GNU/Linux naming controversy Revolution OS Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns Defective by Design

GNU Mailman

History

Features

See also

References

Further reading

Reviews

Other resources

External links