Mailman 3 December 2002 - Mailman-announce

RELEASED Mailman 2.1 - final
by barry＠python.org 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1. Mailman is free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized, supporting 17 languages out-of-the-box. A summary of additional new features in Mailman 2.1 is outlined below. The NEWS file in the source distribution contains more details about all the new features. For more information on Mailman, including downloading and installation instructions, please visit one of the following mirror sites: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sf.net The Mailman developers wish to thank Control.com for their sponsorship of several Mailman 2.1 features, Zope Corporation for their support, and the entire Mailman community for their contributions. -Barry Warsaw Pythonlabs, Zope Corporation -------------------- snip snip -------------------- - Multi-lingual support for all web pages and Mailman generated email notices, with languages selectable on a per-site, per-list, and per-user basis. - Through-the-web list creation and removal; (with automatic support depending on the MTA) - "Real name" support for members - Improved simple user-task operation (e.g. no passwords required for subscription and unsubscription). - 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 - Better membership management, including searching - Re-organized administrative requests pages - Moderated newsgroup support - A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing dependence on cron, resulting in improved responsiveness and scalability - New moderation and privacy controls - Invitations - Autoresponse governors - Users can now change some delivery options globally, for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery status, real name, and more. - Improved MIME and I18n support in the archiver - Addition of a separate "list moderator" role - Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users immediately).

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 rc 1
by barry＠python.org 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

Well, it's Christmas Eve and it's snowing outside, so what more festive thing is there to do but announce the release candidate for Mailman 2.1 final. :) It's been a long time coming, but hopefully it's worth unwrapping this present! I believe we're on track to make the final release before the end of the year. My humble thanks to everyone who's been involved in the project. See below for the short list of changes since 2.1 beta 6. Most importantly, Lithuanian support has been added. The new tarball has been uploaded to SourceForge and the various web sites have been updated too. Enjoy, and seasons greetings to all, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1 rc 1 (24-Dec-2002) Bug fixes and language updates. Also, - Lithuanian support has been added. - bin/remove_members grew --nouserack and --noadminack switches - configure now honors --srcdir

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 6
by barry＠python.org 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 6. This is the last planned beta release before MM2.1 final, which I still expect to release before the end of the year. See below for a list of changes since 2.1b5. There have been lots of bug fxes and lots of translations updates. The new tarball has been uploaded to SourceForge, and the various web sites will be updated shortly. Enjoy, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1 beta 6 (09-Dec-2002) Lots and lots of bug fixes, and translation updates. Also, - ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS is now set to true by default. - QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES is now set to true by default. - Bounce messages which were recognized, but in which no member addresses were found are no longer forwarded to the list administrator. - bin/arch grew a --wipe option which first removes the entire old archive before regenerating the new one. - bin/mailmanctl -u now prints a warning that permission problems could appear, such as when trying to delete a list through the web that has some archives in it. - bin/remove_members grew --nouserack/-n and -noadminack/-N options. - A new script bin/list_owners has been added for printing out list owners and moderators. - Dates in the web version of archived messages are now relative to the local timezone, and include the timezone names, when available.

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