Whats the short version of how MailMan works from a technical standpoint?
The heart of MailMan is a CGI application written in Perl, version 5. The mail application generates MailMan’s user interface dynamically by reading template files filled with HTML code, processing them, and producing output for the user through a web server. To obtain useful email information, MailMan obtains a user’s email account authentication information directly from the user (a username, password and server name) and communicates with the user’s POP3 email server the way that any client-side mail software ordinarily would. The user sees a list of messages and can select messages for viewing, deletion, and other normal mail tasks. If a user wishes to reply to a message, forward a message, or create a new message, MailMan communicates with an SMTP mail server to send the outgoing message the way that any ordinary client-side software would.
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