[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 1.0b4 released

[John Viega]

Mailman 1.0b4 is now available from:

   ftp://list.org/pub/mailman/mailman-1.0b4.tar.gz

This release is only intended to see a small distribution, primarily
this development community.  The first "major" release is still a
couple of weeks away (some people still need to sign copyright forms
for GNU, archiving has to be integrated back in, etc.)

Developers, please feel encouraged to go to the Mailman home page,
look at the developer's TODO list, and pick out a project.  If you are
thus inclined, the Mailman home page is located at:

   http://www.list.org/


The major changes since 1.0b3 are:

 - A configure script for easy installation (Barry Warsaw)

 - The ability to install Mailman to locations other than /home/mailman
   (Barry Warsaw)

 - Use cookies on the admin pages (also hides admin pages from others)
   (Scott Cotton)

 - Subscription requests send a request for confirmation, which may be
   done by simply replying to the message (Scott Cotton)

 - Facilities for gating mail to a newsgroup, and for gating a newsgroup
   to a mailing list (John Viega)

 - Contact the SMTP port instead of calling sendmail (primarily for
   portability) (JohnViega)

 - Changed all links on web pages to relative links where appropriate.
   (John Viega)

 - Use MD5 if crypt is not available (John Viega)

 - Lots of fixing up of bounce handling (Ken Manheimer)

 - General UI polishing (Ken Manheimer)

 - mm_html: Make it prominent when the user's delivery is disabled
   on his option page. (Ken Manheimer)


Enjoy,

John