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Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager

Mailman is software 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. See the features page for more detail.

Mailman is free software. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The canonical Mailman home page is at www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html, with more information available at www.list.org. Mailman is written in the Python programming language, with a little bit of C code for security.

By the way, the name of this software is spelled Mailman with a capital leading M and a lowercase second m. It is incorrect to spell it "MailMan" (i.e. you should not use StudlyCaps).

Acknowledgements

Mailman is brought to you by the Mailman Cabal, currently composed of the following core developers: Barry Warsaw, Harald Meland, Ken Manheimer, Scott Cotton, and John Viega. Mailman was originally written by John Viega.

The Cabal would like to thank the following other developers for their important contributions (in no particular order): Juan Carlos Rey Anaya, Victoriano Giralt, Mads Kiilerich, The Dragon De Monsyne, Timothy O'Malley, Balazs Nagy, Michael Mclay, Greg Stein, Gergely Madarasz, Andrew Kuchling, Jeff Hahn, Paul Hebble, Christopher P. Lindsey, Chris Kolar, J C Lawrence, Jeremy Hylton, Nigel Metheringham, Dan Mick, Jim Tittsler, Ricardo Kustner, Bernhard Reiter, Thomas Wouters, Jeff Berliner, Ted Cabeen, Michael Yount, Ron Jarrell, Chris Snell, David Champion, Darrell Fuhriman, Owen Taylor, Fil, Noam Zeilberger, Mark MERLIN, John A. Martin, Erik Forsberg, Tanner Lovelace. We have a extensive wish list and welcome anyone else who would like to contribute!

Papers

A number of papers and other material presented at the 7th International Python Conference and the 12th Usenix LISA conference are available here.

Logos

The Dragon De Monsyne created and donated two logos for Mailman which you can use to link back to the Mailman website.
Small Logo (110x35)
Large Logo (247x93)