Free mailing list 1.04 software for linux

Web Mailing List project designed to be an easy to use mailing list application.
Using a mailing list application can greatly enhance communication with your site visitors. Web mailing list makes it easy for users to signup for your mailing lists.
Creating and sending out email newsletters is a snap. If you your users wish to unsubscribe, they simply visit your unsubscribe page and enter the email address where they received the newslettter.
Enhancements:
- This release updates the database creation portion of the system setup.

LDAP Mailing Lists Access Policy Daemon (MLAPD) is a mailing list manager that uses LDAP (instead of BDB or GDBM) to control list access. Its designed to work in conjunction with Postfix as an access policy delegation daemon. It manages electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Its goal is to store/read list data on/from LDAP.
It works as a Postfix access policy delegation agent, so it can be installed one time and used by multiple Postfix instances, or installed multiple times and not suffer database access concurrency issues (because it uses LDAP).
Enhancements:
- This can be considered the first stable and usable release.

glastree application builds live backup trees, with branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older documents or retrieve lost files. Hard links serve to compress out unchanged files, while modified ones are copied verbatim. A prune utility effects a constant, sliding window.

Snowlist generates an RDF (RSS 1.0) document from individual email messages or from a mailing list. Rather than producing one news item for each mail message, it will group topics into a single RSS item and present the list in a bulletin board like view.

This program generates RSS feeds from mailing lists, because it does not generate the usual one item per mail feeds that are next to useless. Snowlist is written in Perl and uses an SQL database backend.

Id recommend adding a dedicated user on your system that receives all the mailing list mail to make processing easier. Ill assume youre using the user "snowlist" through the rest of this manual.

Create the database table now. You can use the included script createdb.DBNAME.sql to create the table Snowlist uses, or you can use the script as a reference and create the table manually. Either way, in the end you must have a table that looks like in the sql example file and a user that can access it.

Before running the script edit it and change $YOUR_DB_USER to the desired value!

If you make it work on a database other than the included creation scripts it would be nice if you could send me a createdb.DBNAME.sql script. Right now there are scripts for: PostgreSQL.

Put the three scripts snowlistDB, snowlistOutput and SnowlistConfig.pm into ~snowlist/bin (or wherever you want them). Create a config directory snowlist/.snowlist/ and create the main config file, named config there. See the included file config.example how this should look like. The section names do not have any meaning to snowlist.

compressoutput generated feeds will be compressed with gzip. Useful to
lower server load and bandwidth consumption. Value is
"yes" or "no".
compressionlevel zlib compression level: 0 (fastest) - 8 (highest)

dbusername username for database login

dbpassword password for database login

maxthread maximum number of threads the RSS feed will contain

maxitemsperthread maximum number of mails per thread

msg_expire maximum age of messages kept. See section Database
cleanup below.


If you have created this file you can start to add your first mailing list. Id recommend to subscribe to the list, before you actually set up everything so youll get the sent mails delivered to the user snowlists standard mailbox and can verify that everything works well.

I assume that the mailinglist now forwards mails to the user snowlist and everything works fine.

Create a config for the list in ~snowlist/.snowlist/. You will need to choose a name for it that you need to use in various places from now on. Iwill call this ListID. We choose the name "testlist" for now. Create a file named testlist.config. See the included file examplefeed.config to get an idea how it should look like.

title the title of the resulting feed

link the homepage of this feed. You can set this to the mailing
lists home page for example.

description description of this feed the RSS reader will show

outputfile where to write the resulting feed. This location must be
writable to the user "snowlist" (or whatever user you chose).

maxthreads (optional) You can override the default settings
maxitemsperthreas in the main configuration for this specific feed.


You now need to redirect the list mail to the script snowlistDB. The most convenient way to do this is procmail I would say. Add a .forward file for the user "snowlist" and put "|/path/to/procmail" in there. Add a .procmailrc that contains a filter for the mailing list you subscribed. This filter must pipe its mail to "~snowlist/bin/snowlistDB testfeed". The first (and only) argument given to "snowlistDB" must be the ListID of this
feed. Its the same as the name of the config file for this feed. If you mix them up it will not work!

If you did everything right, mail that will arrive at snowlist@your.domain will now be written into the database. You can now generate the RSS feed.

Run "~snowlist/bin/snowlistOutput testfeed" (once again the first and only argument is the ListID) and the script will write the feed to the location you gave in the config file "testfeed.config".

You should add the last command to the users crontab to regenerate the feed hourly or in a desired interval. If you specify "-" as the outputfile in the config "snowlistOutput" will write the feed to standard output for further processing with other programs.

That should be all that is needed to get everything running. Please read the next section! It contains various things to consider before running a publicly accessable feed.

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.

Listat is a free, professional package that generates interesting statistics on mailing list demographics.
Main features:
- Stats in text form and HTML form
- Flags for the countries are included in the HTML stats
- The report can be sorted by the domain name or by the number of subscribers from a domain name
- Reports on unrecognized domains
- User configurable domain file: can be extended if more domain names are introduced
- Additional miscellaneous statistical information reported: mean, median, mode, standard deviation, longest length, longest email addresses shortest length, shortest email addresses
Listat creates three reports:
- Domain Report
- Subdomain Report
- Stats Report
Domain Report
The format of this report is:
Domain name Count Percentage Country
This report has following features:
- The report can be sorted by the domain name or by the number of subscribers from a domain name.
- Flag images for the countries are included in the HTML stats.
- Reports on unrecognized domains and invalid addresses.
- User configurable domain file: can be extended if more domain names are added.
Subdomain Report
The format of this report is:
Subdomain Count %age Description
This report has following features:
- Can be generated on any subdomain
- Top n (user configurable) subdomains can be listed
- Subdomain description is listed
Stats Report
This report includes following statistical information:
Email addresses:
- Longest
- Shortest
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
- Standard Deviation
Enhancements:
- The script can run from the command line or as a CGI without needing any modification.
- The domain listing was updated, and new crisp flag images are used.
- The code was cleaned up, including speedups.

Mail::Toaster is an installer for a collection of software which provides a full-featured mail server. The system is built around the qmail mail transport agent, with many additions and modifications
Main features:
- SMTP Mail Server (SMTP-AUTH, chk-user, SPF, TLS, tarpitting, RBL)
- Virtual Domain Hosting w/delegated administration
- Virtual Domain Users
- Mailing List (Ezmlm)
- AutoResponder
- Web Based E-Mail (Sqwebmail, Squirrelmail, V-Webmail)
- Web Based Domain Administration
- Mail Filtering (rbls, SpamAssassin, simscan, Qmail-Scanner)
- Virus Scanning (ClamAV, F-Prot, Uvscan)
- SMTP roaming via SMTP-AUTH, POP-AUTH, & IMAP-AUTH
- SMTP roaming via SMTP-submission (port 587)
- POP3, POP3-SSL
- IMAP, IMAP-SSL (Courier IMAP)
- CGI frontend to mail features
- Log processing and pretty graphs (via RRDutil)
- Auto-Installs of MySQL, Apache, phpMyAdmin, and more
- Centralized configuration files
- Support for clusters of qmail servers
- Builds SSL certs for Apache, Qmail, & Courier
Security - Mail::Toaster supports secure connections from the email client (via POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and webmail) to the server. If the remote (destination) email server supports it, we also encrypt the email as it travels across the public Intenet from server to server. Thus, if you happen to be using two Mail::Toasters and your email clients are configured to use SSL, you have a fully encrypted path from the email sender to the final recipient.
State of the Art Filtering - Mail::Toaster has sophisticated filtering capabilities built right in. A default installation blocks all viruses and will detect 85% of the spam. With a little bit of training, its reasonable to expect and achieve 99% spam filtering accuracy.
Flexibility - Mail::Toaster provides an extremely flexible framework to allow you to build your email system your way. This flexibility makes it easy to migrate existing systems to Mail::Toaster and also allows Mail::Toaster to work in diverse environments and OS platforms.
Support - There is a thriving and active support community available on the mailing list. The web forums are also frequented by quite a few helpful folks. If you need more support than folks are willing to provide, commercial support is available.
Enhancements:
- Primarily code quality improvements.
- Rewrites of major portions of the code using techniques described in Perl Best Practices.
- Many more tests, much better tests, and more error testing within the functions.
- A new Webmail interface.
- Its not terribly "pretty" yet, but is much more user friendly and functional.