On behalf of the rest of the Mailman Cabal, I'm very happy (and
somewhat relieved) to announce the release of Mailman 1.0. I've just
uploaded the tarball to www.list.org so follow the links there to
download it.
Mailman -- the GNU Mailing List Manager -- is software to help manage
email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most
similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and
allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the web. Even the
list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the
web. Mailman also integrates most things people want to do with
mailing lists, including archiving, mail-to-news gateways, and so on.
Mailman is written almost completely in Python (there's a little bit
of C for security purposes). Mailman is distributed under the terms
of the GPL.
>From the NEWS file, here are the list of changes since 1.0rc3:
- Configure script now allows $PREFIX (by default /home/mailman) to be
permissions 02755. Also, configure now tests for vsnprintf()
- Workaround, taken from GNU screen, for systems missing vsnprintf()
- Return-Receipt-To: and Disposition-Notification-To: headers are
always removed from posted messages (they can be used to troll for
list membership).
- Workaround for MSIE4.01 (and possibly other versions) bug in the
handling of cookies.
- A small collection of other bug fixes.
Enjoy,
-Barry
<p><a href="http://www.list.org/">Mailman 1.0</a> - the GNU Mailing
List Manager. (30-Jul-1999)
Cc python-announce(a)python.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0rc3
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Hi folks,
Mailman 1.0 release candidate 3 (1.0rc3) has just been uploaded to
www.list.org. This is an important bug fix release which primarily
fixes a performance problem in the archiver. Since the GNU folks are
getting ready to put together their next source CDROM, this increases
the possibility that 1.0rc3 will be short-lived -- with 1.0 final
right around the corner!
>From the NEWS file:
1.0rc3
- new script bin/check_perms which checks (and optionally fixes) the
permissions and group ownerships of the files in your Mailman
installation.
- Removed a bottleneck in the archiving code that was causing
performance problems on highly loaded servers.
- The code that saves a list's state and configuration database has
been made more robust.
- Additional exception handlers have been added in several places to
alleviate problems with Mailman bombing out when it really would be
better to print/log a helpful message.
- The "password" mail command will now mail back the sender's
subscription password when given with no arguments.
- The embarrassing subject-prefixing bug present in rc2 has been
fixed.
- A small (but nice :) collection of other squashed bugs.
On behalf of the entire development team,
-Barry
