Mailman Features

Here's a brief description of the features in Mailman. For a detailed descriptions of recent changes see the NEWS file for Mailman 2.1 and the NEWS file for Mailman 3.

• Through-the-web list creation and removal (with automatic support depending on the MTA)
• Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in any of nearly two dozen supported language, configurable per-site, per-list, and per-user
• "Real name" support for members
• Support for personalized deliveries and VERP-like message delivery for foolproof bounce detection
• Emergency moderation
• MIME-based content filtering, with demime/stripmime like options
• Regular expression based topic filtering
• Through the web membership management
• Through the web administrative requests pages
• Moderated newsgroup support
• Flexible moderation and privacy controls
• Subscription invitations
• Auto-response controls.
• User controllable delivery options
• Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users immediately).

Mailman 3 adds lots of other features, including:

• Virtual hosting support, with no list name restrictions
• Single user account to manage all subscription addresses
• Users can specify a preferred address to use by default
• Flexible architecture for integration with your own site
• REST-based API for the core system
• Completely revamped and improved web user interface (Postorius) and default archiver (HyperKitty).