Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System

Copyright (C) 1998-2016 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is GNU Mailman, a mailing list management system distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 or later. The name of this software is spelled “Mailman” with a leading capital ‘M’ but with a lower case second ‘m’. Any other spelling is incorrect.

Mailman is written in Python which is available for all platforms that Mailman is supported on, including GNU/Linux and most other Unix-like operating systems (e.g. Solaris, *BSD, MacOSX, etc.). Mailman is not supported on Windows, although web and mail clients on any platform should be able to interact with Mailman just fine.

The Mailman home page is:

and there is a community driven wiki at

For more information on Mailman, see the above web sites, or the documentation provided with this software.

Table of Contents

Mailman modules

These documents are generated from the doctest suite.

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