What is MailMan?
MailMan is the new and improved software that now manages the AYA mailing lists. While users will still send and receive emails in the same manner, they will no longer need to use cumbersome command lines to make changes to their mailing list settings. Instead, users can now update their member options, subscribe, and unsubscribe through a single, easy-to-use website. Additionally, more advanced users can now integrate HTML into their emails, allowing them to visually enhance their posts to the mailing lists.
Mailman is a web-based mailing list management interface. We moved the lists from the old Willers system into Mailman. List administrators old majordomo passwords will work with the Mailman web interface. To administer your mailing list, go to the administration interface found at http://www.employees.org/mailman/admin/LISTNAME where LISTNAME is the name of your mailing list. Your mailing list subscribers can change their settings at http://www.employees.org/listinfo/LISTNAME. These URLs are in List-* headers of each message sent through the list, as well as at the message footer. [mailing-lists] How do I create a new mailing list. We do not currently have an automated system in place for this yet. We will be working on this after we get more fundamental services like account creation and virtual hosting going. If you want a list, you can send your request to mailman and the human behind it will create the list when they can get to it. No guarantees on how long that may be (could be we
Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the web. Mailman also integrates most things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail-to-news gateways, integrated bounce handling, spam prevention, email-based admin commands, direct SMTP delivery (with fast bulk mailing), support for virtual domains, and more.
