[Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 2

[Barry A. Warsaw]

I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 2; see below for a list of changes
since version 2.1 beta 1.  There have been lots of bug fixes, Korean
language support aded, and a couple of new features (a bit of a thaw
in the feature freeze ;).

Remember that discussions about version 2.1 are preferred on
mailman-developers.  I plan on moving mailman-developers over to the
new version tomorrow, and if that works well, the other mailman-*
mailing lists at python.org too.

Enjoy,
-Barry

2.1 beta 2 (05-May-2002)

    Lots of bug fixing, and the following new features and changes:

    - A "de-mime" content filter feature has been added.  This
      oft-requested feature allows you to specify MIME types that
      Mailman should strip off of any messages before they're posted
      to the list.  You can also optionally convert text/html to
      text/plain (by default, through lynx if it's available).

    - Changes to the way the RFC 2919 and 2369 headers (i.e. the
      List-*: headers) are added:
          o List-Id: is always added
          o List-Post:, List-Help:, List-Subscribe:,
            List-Unsubscribe:, and List-Archive: are only added to
            posting messages.
          o X-List-Administrivia: is only added to messages Mailman
            creates and sends out of its own accord.

      Also, if the site administrator allows it, list owners can
      suppress the addition of all the List-*: headers.  List owners
      can also separately suppress the List-Post: header for
      announce-only lists.

    - A new framework for email commands has been added.  This allows
      you to easily add, delete, or change the email commands that
      Mailman understands, on a per-site, per-list, or even per-user
      basis.

    - Users can now change their digest delivery type from MIME to
      plain text globally, for all lists they are subscribed to.

    - No language select pulldowns are shown if the list only supports
      one language.

    - More mylist-admin eradication.

    - Several performance improvements in the bounce qrunner, one of
      which is to make it run only once per minute instead of once per
      second.

    - Korean language support as been added.

    - Gatewaying from news -> mail uses its connections to the nntpd
      more efficiently.

    - In bin/add_members, -n/--non-digest-members-file command line
      switch is deprecated in favor of -r/--regular-members-file.

    - bin/sync_members grew a -g/--goodbye-msg switch.