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Developer(s) | Abhilash Raj [1] |
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Initial release | July 30, 1999[2] |
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Repository | |
Written in | Mostly Python, some C |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Available in | Many languages |
Type | Mailing list management software |
License | 3:
GPL-3.0-or-later 2: GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website |
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GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists. [4] [5] Mailman is coded primarily in Python and currently maintained by Abhilash Raj. [1] Mailman is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License. [5]
A very early version of Mailman was written by John Viega while a graduate student, who then lost his copy of the source in a hard drive crash sometime around 1998. [6] Ken Manheimer at CNRI, who was looking for a replacement for Majordomo, then took over development. When Manheimer left CNRI, Barry Warsaw took over. Mailman 3—the first major new version in over a decade—was released in April 2015. [7]
Mailman runs on most Unix-like systems, including Linux. Since Mailman 3.0 it has required python-3.4 or newer. [8] It works with Unix-style mail servers such as Exim, Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. Features include: