GNU Mailman

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GNU Mailman
Developer(s) Abhilash Raj [1]
Initial releaseJuly 30, 1999;25 years ago (1999-07-30) [2]
Stable release
3:3.3.9 [3] / 2023-10-20 [±]
2:2.1.39 / 2021-12-13
Repository
Written inMostly Python, some C
Operating system Unix-like
Available inMany languages
Type Mailing list management software
License 3: GPL-3.0-or-later
2: GPL-2.0-or-later
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 Abhilash Raj. [1] Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. [5]

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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 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. [7]

Web administration interface for GNU Mailman 2.1 Mailman admin interface.png
Web administration interface for GNU Mailman 2.1

Features

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

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References

  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.
  3. ↑ "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". gnu.org. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  4. ↑ "freshmeat.net: Project details for GNU Mailman" . Retrieved 2009-02-11.[ dead link ]
  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. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Pipermail". amk.ca. Archived from the original on 13 February 2001. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "Developer Resources". gnu.org. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

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