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Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. </td></tr> </table><!-- end of sidebar table --> </td> <td width="15"> </td><!--spacer--> <!-- end of sidebar cell --> <!-- start of body cell --> <td valign="top" width="90%" class="body"><br /> <h3>Mailman Features</h3> Here's a brief description of the new features in Mailman 2.1 The <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/mailman/NEWS?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup" >NEWS</a> file contains a detailed summary of all new features. <ul> <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). </ul> Here is a short summary of other features in Mailman. For details, please see the <a href="docs.html">on-line documentation</a>. <ul> <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. </ul> </td><!-- end of body cell --> </tr><!-- end of sidebar/body row --> </table><!-- end of page table --> </body></html>