How is MailMan different from HotMail, YahooMail, ExciteMail, etc?
Free Internet mail services such as the ones mentioned above provide the same basic services that MailMan does, but they provide them through a proprietary web site, generally with the purpose of selling advertisements to a guaranteed repeat audience. Free email sites provide the user with a mailbox and the server to access the mailbox. MailMan is different because it is simply a piece of software, a technology to be applied in any number of ways. MailMan works in conjunction with other mail servers in order to process incoming and outgoing mail, communicating with those servers though well-accepted Internet standards such as the POP3 and STMP protocols. The primary advantage of MailMan is that administrators can control their own MailMan installations. They have the power to specify what mail servers MailMan connects to, what MailMan looks like when it runs, who has access to MailMan, etc. When you use MailMan, you are accessing the same email account that you normally access, not a n
