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1 Introduction to GNU Mailman</a>
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GNU Mailman is software that lets you manage electronic mailing lists.
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It supports a wide range of mailing list types, such as general
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discussion lists and announce-only lists. Mailman has extensive
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features for controlling the privacy of your lists, distributing your
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list as personalized postings or digests, gatewaying postings to and
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from Usenet, and providing automatic bounce detection. Mailman
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provides a built-in archiver, multiple natural languages, as well as
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advanced content and topic filtering.
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Mailman provides several interfaces to its functionality. Most list
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administrators will primarily use the web interface to customize their
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lists. There is also a limited email command interface to the
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administrative functions, as well as a command line interface if you
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have shell access on the Mailman server. This document does not cover
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