What is Mailman?
Mailman is a free, open source mailing list management system. It provides a web-based interface that helps online communities manage mailing lists for email discussion and announcement lists. Key features of Mailman include:
- User subscription and unsubscription management
- Moderation and admin controls
- List archiving and email gateway
- Spam filtering
- Comprehensive REST API
- Integrations with external apps
Mailman is used by many open source projects, organizations, universities, and more to power their mailing lists. It has an active open source community contributing to its development. Mailman works with all major email platforms and is localized into over 30 languages.
Some examples of popular Mailman mailing lists are the Debian Project lists, Python language lists, GNU lists, free software lists, and more. Overall, Mailman aims to provide a full-featured, secure, and standardized platform for running reliable mailing lists.