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Title: Mailman Features
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<li><a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html">MHonArc</a>
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<h3>Mailman Features</h3>
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Here's a brief description of the new features in Mailman 2.1
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The <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/mailman/NEWS?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup"
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>NEWS</a> file contains a detailed summary of all new features.
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<li>Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic
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support depending on the MTA)
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<li>Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in
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any of nearly two dozen supported language, configurable
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per-site, per-list, and per-user
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<li> "Real name" support for members
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<li>Much better password-less operation for simple user tasks.
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<li>Support for personalized deliveries and
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<a href="http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt">VERP</a>-like message
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delivery for foolproof bounce detection
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<li>Emergency moderation
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<li>MIME-based content filtering, with demime/stripmime like options
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<li>Regular expression based topic filtering
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<li>Better membership management, including searching
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<li>Re-organized administrative requests pages
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<li>Moderated newsgroup support
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<li>A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing
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the dependence on cron, for better responsiveness and
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<li>New moderation and privacy controls
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<li>Autoresponse governors
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<li>Users can now change some of their delivery options globally,
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for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery
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status, real name, etc.
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<li>Much better MIME and I18n support in the archiver
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<li>A separate "list moderator" role has been added
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<li>Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users
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Here is a short summary of other features in Mailman. For details,
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please see the <a href="docs.html">on-line documentation</a>.
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<li>Web based list administration for nearly all tasks, including list
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configuration, moderation (post approvals), management of user
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<li>Web based subscribing and unsubscribing, and user configuration
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management. Users can temporarily disable their accounts, select
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digest modes, hide their email addresses from other members, etc.
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<li>A customizable <em>home page</em> for each mailing list.
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<li>Per-list privacy features, such as closed-subscriptions, private
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archives, private membership rosters, and sender-based posting
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<li>Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
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<ul><li>Regular (immediate) delivery
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<li>Plain (<a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1153.html">RFC
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<li>Integrated bounce detection within an extensible framework.
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Automatic disposition of bouncing addresses (disable,
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<li>Integrated spam filters
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<li>Built-in web-based archiving, with hooks for external archivers such as
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<a href="http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html">MHonArc</a>.
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<li>Integrated Usenet gatewaying.
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<li>Integrated auto-replies.
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<li>Majordomo-style email based commands.
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<li>Multiple list owners and moderators are possible.
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<li>Support for virtual domains.
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<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and most Un*x-like systems, compatible with most
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web servers and browsers, and most SMTP servers. Requires Python
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<li>An extensible mail delivery pipeline.
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<li>High-performance mail delivery, with a scalable architecture.