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<h3>Mailman Features</h3>
Here's a brief description of the features in Mailman 2.1
The
<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/NEWS?only_with_tag=Release_2_1-maint">NEWS</a>
file contains a detailed summary of all new features.
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<li>Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic
support depending on the MTA)
<li>Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in
any of nearly two dozen supported language, configurable
per-site, per-list, and per-user
<li> "Real name" support for members
<li>Much better password-less operation for simple user tasks.
<li>Support for personalized deliveries and
<a href="http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt">VERP</a>-like message
delivery for foolproof bounce detection
<li>Emergency moderation
<li>MIME-based content filtering, with demime/stripmime like options
<li>Regular expression based topic filtering
<li>Better membership management, including searching
<li>Re-organized administrative requests pages
<li>Moderated newsgroup support
<li>A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing
the dependence on cron, for better responsiveness and
scalability
<li>New moderation and privacy controls
<li>Invitations
<li>Autoresponse governors
<li>Users can now change some of their delivery options globally,
for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery
status, real name, etc.
<li>Much better MIME and I18n support in the archiver
<li>A separate "list moderator" role has been added
<li>Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users
immediately).
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Here is a short summary of other features in Mailman. For details,
please see the <a href="docs.html">on-line documentation</a>.
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<li>Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
configuration, moderation (post approvals), management of user
accounts.
<li>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.
<li>A customizable <em>home page</em> for each mailing list.
<li>Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private
archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting
rules.
<li>Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
<ul><li>Regular (immediate) delivery
<li>MIME digest
<li>Plain (<a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1153.html">RFC
1153</a>) digests
</ul>
<li>Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
Automatic disposition of bouncing addresses (disable,
unsubscribe).
<li>Integrated spam filters
<li>Built-in web-based archiving, with hooks for external archivers such as
<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html">MHonArc</a>.
<li>Integrated Usenet gatewaying.
<li>Integrated auto-replies.
<li>Majordomo-style email based commands.
<li>Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.
<li>Support for virtual domains.
<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and most Un*x-like systems, compatible with most
web servers and browsers, and most SMTP servers. Requires Python
2.1.3 or newer.
<li>An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
<li>High-performance mail delivery, with a scalable architecture.
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