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<h3>Mailman Features</h3>

Here's a brief description of the new features in Mailman 2.1
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<li>Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic
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<li>Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in
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<li> "Real name" support for members
<li>Much better password-less operation for simple user tasks.
<li>Support for personalized deliveries and
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<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
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<li>New moderation and privacy controls
<li>Invitations
<li>Autoresponse governors
<li>Users can now change some of their delivery options globally,
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    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
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<li>Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
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    accounts.
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    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.
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<li>Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
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<li>Integrated spam filters
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<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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