<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="mailman-admin.css" type='text/css' /> <link rel="first" href="mailman-admin.html" title='GNU mailman - list Administration Manual' /> <link rel='contents' href='contents.html' title="Contents" /> <link rel='last' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel='help' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel="next" href="node8.html" /> <link rel="prev" href="contents.html" /> <link rel="parent" href="contents.html" /> <link rel="next" href="node4.html" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name='aesop' content='information' /> <title>1 Introduction to GNU Mailman</title> </head> <body> <div class="navigation"> <div id='top-navigation-panel' xml:id='top-navigation-panel'> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="1.1 a List's Email" href="node4.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - List Administration Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="contents.html">Contents</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="contents.html">Contents</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node4.html">1.1 A List's Email</a> </div> <hr /></div> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <h1><a name="SECTION002100000000000000000"> 1 Introduction to GNU Mailman</a> </h1> <p> GNU Mailman is software that lets you manage electronic mailing lists. It supports a wide range of mailing list types, such as general discussion lists and announce-only lists. Mailman has extensive features for controlling the privacy of your lists, distributing your list as personalized postings or digests, gatewaying postings to and from Usenet, and providing automatic bounce detection. Mailman provides a built-in archiver, multiple natural languages, as well as advanced content and topic filtering. <p> Mailman provides several interfaces to its functionality. Most list administrators will primarily use the web interface to customize their lists. There is also a limited email command interface to the administrative functions, as well as a command line interface if you have shell access on the Mailman server. This document does not cover the command line interface; see the GNU Mailman site administrator's manual for more details. <p> <p><br /></p><hr class='online-navigation' /> <div class='online-navigation'> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <a name="CHILD_LINKS"><strong>Subsections</strong></a> <ul class="ChildLinks"> <li><a href="node4.html">1.1 A List's Email Addresses</a> <li><a href="node5.html">1.2 Administrative Roles</a> <li><a href="node6.html">1.3 A List's Web Pages</a> <li><a href="node7.html">1.4 Basic Architectural Overview</a> </ul> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> </div> <div class="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'> <p></p><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="1.1 a List's Email" href="node4.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - List Administration Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="contents.html">Contents</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="contents.html">Contents</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node4.html">1.1 A List's Email</a> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 14, 2009.</span> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </body> </html>