Mailman Features
Brief Overview
  • Most standard mailing list features, including list moderation, mail based commands, digests (both MIME and `plain'), and so on.

  • An extensive web-based user interface that is customizable on a per-list basis. This allows users to manage their own subscriptions, with support for temporarily disabling their accounts, selecting digest modes, hiding their email addresses from other members, etc.

  • A web-based list administration interface for all admin-type tasks, including list configuration, moderation (post approvals), selection of posting and subscribing rules, management of user accounts via the web, etc.

  • Automatic web-based hypermail-style archiving, including provisions for private archives.

  • Integrated gatewaying to and from Usenet.

  • Smart bounce detection with automatic disposition (i.e. configurable disabling, unsubscribing).

  • Direct SMTP delivery of messages, including integrated fast bulk mailing.

  • Smart spam protection.

  • Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.

  • Optional (per-user) MIME-compliant digests.

  • Support for virtual domains.

  • Runs on most Un*x-like systems, compatible with most web servers and browsers, and most SMTP servers. Compatible with Python 1.5 or newer. Mailman does not currently work on Windows.