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E-Mail List Service using MailMan
"Mailman"
is an opensource
software application to help manage electronic mail discussion lists, much like
Majordomo or Smartmail. Mailman gives each mailing list a unique web page and
allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change their account options over
the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely via the
web. Mailman has most of the features that people want in a mailing list
management system, including built-in archiving, mail-to-news gateways, spam
filters, bounce detection, digest delivery, and so on.
Mailman Features
- Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
configuration, moderation (post approvals), management of user accounts.
- Web based subscribing and unsubscribing, and user configuration
management. Users can temporarily disable their accounts, select digest
modes, hide their email addresses from other members, etc.
- A customizable home page for each mailing list.
- Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private archives,
private membership rosters, etc.
- Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
- Regular (immediate) delivery
- MIME digest
- Plain (RFC 934) digests
- Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework. Automatic
disposition of bouncing addresses (disable, unsubscribe).
- Integrated spam filters.
- Automatic web-based Hypermail-style archiving, with hooks for external
archivers such as MHonArc.
- Integrated Usenet gatewaying.
- Integrated auto-replies.
- Majordomo-style email based commands.
- Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.
- Support for virtual domains.
Mailman
Features for the List Administrator
- Web
Interface: a full interface to the management side of the listlist
configuration parameters are easily adjustable
- intuitive
interface
- context
help
- password
access (with changeable password!)
- administrative
requests (posts when moderated, subscriptions when closed, etc. are easily
processed via the web interface
- e-mail
notification-only of subscribes and unsubscribes
List Posting
Features
- "moderated"
list posting must be approved by the moderator
- ability to
restrict posts to list members
- support for
posts by selected members without approval even when moderated
- ability to
hide sender
- special
SPAM reducing options
- administrative
request filters
Archives
- fully
web-accessible threaded archives
- support for
different archiving intervals
- support for
password-authenticated private archives
- raw-text
down-loadable archives
Subscription
and membership
- support for
closed lists (subscriptions must be approved by the owner)
- support for
digest subscriptions (one-a-day and size threshold)
- users can
hide themselves from appearing on non-administrator member lists
- ability to
limit member list visibility (public, members-only, administrator-only)
- separate
configurations system to eliminate prank subscriptions
- easy to
mass subscribe users
- easy to
view and change subscriptions status and type for all members
- double-response
subscriptions system to eliminate prank subscriptions and incorrect e-mail
addresses
- bounce
detection with alert and automatic unsubscribe options to detect and
respond to invalid subscribed addresses
Other features
- customizable
web pages
- customizable
subject line markers
- customizable
headers/footers on list messages
- customizable
list-name capitalization
- support for
hidden lists (not advertised on server list index)
- support for
"multiple" list owners/administrators
Mailman
Features for the Subscriber
- easy to use
web interface
- password
protection on web configuration options
- subscriber
is tracked as an individual user, regardless of the number of
subscriptions on the server
- ability to
view and modify subscriptions to all lists from a single web page
- new users
can subscribe via list-information page
- forgotten
password feature delivers a new password via e-mail
- ability to
have password and subscription confirmation e-mailed monthly
- subscribe,
unsubscribe, and change options via e-mail commands in addition to web
interface
Comparison
of Mailman and Majordomo
- requests
must be sent to (listname)-request@list.the_domainname_here.com - no
single-address contact for all subscribe/unsubscribe requests
- no e-mail
retrievable "file" archive ability
- e-mail
commands are read from subject line *and* body (not just body)
Why
use Mailman?
- faster
response
- bounced
mail is handled automatically
- users can
control their own subscriptions
- easier to
manage than a simple distribution list for large groups of recipients
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