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-Mailman Features
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-Here's a brief description of the features in Mailman 2.1
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-NEWS
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-- Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic
- support depending on the MTA)
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- 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
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- "Real name" support for members
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- Much better password-less operation for simple user tasks.
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- Support for personalized deliveries and
- VERP-like message
- delivery for foolproof bounce detection
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- Emergency moderation
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- MIME-based content filtering, with demime/stripmime like options
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- Regular expression based topic filtering
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- Better membership management, including searching
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- Re-organized administrative requests pages
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- Moderated newsgroup support
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- A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing
- the dependence on cron, for better responsiveness and
- scalability
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- New moderation and privacy controls
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- Invitations
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- Autoresponse governors
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- Users can now change some of their delivery options globally,
- for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery
- status, real name, etc.
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- Much better MIME and I18n support in the archiver
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- A separate "list moderator" role has been added
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- 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 on-line documentation.
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-- Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
- configuration, moderation (post approvals), management of user
- accounts.
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- 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.
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- A customizable home page for each mailing list.
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- Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private
- archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting
- rules.
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- Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
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- Regular (immediate) delivery
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- MIME digest
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- Plain (RFC
- 1153) digests
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- - Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
- Automatic disposition of bouncing addresses (disable,
- unsubscribe).
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- Integrated spam filters
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- Built-in web-based archiving, with hooks for external archivers such as
- MHonArc.
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- Integrated Usenet gatewaying.
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- Integrated auto-replies.
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- Majordomo-style email based commands.
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- Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.
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- Support for virtual domains.
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- 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.
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- An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
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- High-performance mail delivery, with a scalable architecture.
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