Development status Mature | ||
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Initial release July 30, 1999; 17 years ago (1999-07-30) Stable release 3.0.3 / March 29, 2016; 11 months ago (2016-03-29) Preview release 3.0b4 / April 28, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-04-28) Repository gitlab.com/mailman/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 Barry Warsaw. Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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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. 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.
Features
Mailman runs on Linux and most Unix-like systems. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required python-3.4 or newer. It works with Unix-style mail servers such as Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. Features include: