GNU Mailman

GNU Mailman

Mailman files
Developer(s) Barry Warsaw
Initial release July 30, 1999 (1999-07-30)[1]
Stable release 3.0.1 / November 15, 2015 (2015-11-15)[2]
Preview release 3.0b4 / April 28, 2014 (2014-04-28)[3]
Development status Mature
Written in Mostly Python, some C
Operating system Unix-like
Available in Many languages
Type Mailing list management software
License GNU GPLv2 +
Website www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.[4][5] Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Barry Warsaw. Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.[5]

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.[6] Ken Manheimer at 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.[7]

Web administration interface for GNU Mailman

Features

Mailman runs on Linux and most Unix-like systems. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required python-3.4 or newer.[8] It works with Unix-style mail servers such as Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. Features include:

See also

References

  1. Warsaw, Barry A. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-12-09.
  2. "GNU.org". GNU.org. 2015-11-15. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  3. "ANNOUNCE: The GNU Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview". Mail.python.org. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  4. "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  5. 1 2 "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  6. "MyMailmanRole — Myriadicity Dot". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  7. "Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists". lwn.net. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  8. "Getting started with GNU Mailman". mailman.readthedocs.org. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  9. "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Wayback.archive.org. Retrieved 2013-12-25.
  10. "Developer Resources". gnu.org. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

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