Free mailing software for linux

Mailing List project is a Web-based, full-featured mailing list and newsletter system. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe themselves.
Email confirmation is used for new subscriptions. The list of subscribers to a list can be imported and exported.
Installation:
- copy all files to your web host
- use phpmyadmin or your mysql interface to run site.sql against your database.
- open site.xml and edit the database section with your database details.
- go to index.php and login with username of admin with a password of test.
Setup the site.xml file with your database settings as follows.
< database type="mysql" >
< server >database server address< /server >
< login >database login< /login >
< password >database password< /password >
< default >mysql database name< /default >
< /database >
Add this to your ".htaccess" file to prevent viewing of the xml config file.
< Files ~ ".xml" >
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
< /Files >
Enhancements:
- A problem with the SQL setup file which caused the setup to fail on some systems was fixed.

Requirements:

• Thunderbird 1.0 1.5.0.* ALL
• Mozilla 1.7.7 1.7.7 ALL

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.

MailRecon is Unix email content control application. It does listen network traffic, capture SMTP messages, analyse it (checks against very flexible and extendable checklist), discards usual private/business messages and save suspicious messages for detailed inspection by security staff.
Main features:
- Capturing email messages from the wire. So its compatible will all mailing software, do not require any reconfiguration and captures messages even if its sent directly to recipient bypassing your mailserver.
- Support for SMTP and POP3 protocols.
- Very flexible mailing filter which goes with MailRecon allows to record only suspicious messages which worth to be examined, and skip usual private and business messages.
- Open Architecture. MailRecon supports plugins for analysis and save of messages. Its very easy to extend its functionality with new plugins - every programmer and system administrator can write it.
- Thanks to Open Architecture, you can use your favorite mail reader or browser to manage archive of captured suspicious messages.
- For limited time, WWW-Security offers free installation and support of evaluation versions on your servers.
- FREE evaluation version which is never expires!
Installation:
- Create user mailrecon and groups mailrecon and mail
- From installation directory run "make install" (as root)
- Copy init.d/mailrecon to your init.d directory and optionally create symlinks from rcN directories if you want to automatially start mailrecon on boot.

bMail is Mailing List/Newsletter software written in PHP.
Main features:
Subscribers:
- Import and Export Subscribers
- Subscribers can update their own information or unsubscribe
- Subscriber Demographics
- Ability to collect customizable demographics from subscribers
- Ability to create and mail groups/subsets of your subscribers based off of filtering criteria
Mailings:
- HTML Mailings
- Integrated WYSIWYG Editor for HTML Mailings
- Advanced sending routine
- Ability to pause, resume, and cancel a mailing
- Mailing will continue if internet connection is lost or browser closes
Enhancements:
[CHANGES]
- Look and feel now controlled by Smarty Templates. (Allows for easy customization of subscribe form, user, and admin pages using templates devoid of PHP)
- Added i18n support through gettext
- Massive reogranization of file structure:
- !!! config.php is now in root directory. See the sample !!!
- Generation of subscription form greatly enhanced. Now supports 3 modes: Default Form, Embedded Form(s), Plain HTML
[ENHANCEMENTS]
- Added a work directory to store cached templates
- Drag and Drop ordering of demographics
- Debugging is more verbose
- Improved logging mechanism
- French and German Translation
[BUG FIXES]
- Fixed configuration of SMTP servers
- Many small cleanups and bugfixes
- Migration away from old HTML form class

mailman-pop3d provides a POP3 interface to GNU Mailman for the purposes of deleting spam which is stuck in the administrative requests queue.
If you manage a large Mailman mailing list, and are tired of using the web interface to discard spam, this script may be for you.
This software should be considered to be in beta stage; bugs are possibly present, and bug reports would be very much appreciated. At this point, I would also be very interested in hearing about success stories.
Enhancements:
- Improved logging messages.
- Development status changed from alpha to beta.

procmail is a mail processing and SmartList mailing list suites. Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.
Enhancements:
- Regression bugs from 3.20:
- Broke compilation with K&R compilers
- procmail -p -m was overridding PATH
- maildir delivery included garbage in filenames
- Mismatched HOST in last rcfile didnt discard the message
- COMSAT wasnt turned off by an rcfile on the command line
- Catch overly long command line variable assignments
- If a command expansion is truncated, set PROCMAIL_OVERFLOW and dont trim trailing (really middle) newlines
- If the comsat host cant be resolved, set COMSAT to "no"

Mail::Digest::Tools is a Perl module that has tools for digest versions of mailing lists.

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::Digest::Tools qw(
process_new_digests
reprocess_ALL_digests
reply_to_digest_message
repair_message_order
consolidate_threads_multiple
consolidate_threads_single
delete_deletables
);
%config_in and %config_out are two configuration hashes whose setup is discussed in detail below.
process_new_digests(%config_in, %config_out);

reprocess_ALL_digests(%config_in, %config_out);

$full_reply_file = reply_to_digest_message(
%config_in,
%config_out,
$digest_number,
$digest_entry,
$directory_for_reply,
);

repair_message_order(
%config_in,
%config_out,
{
year => 2004,
month => 01,
day => 27,
}
);

consolidate_threads_multiple(
%config_in,
%config_out,
$first_common_letters, # optional integer argument; defaults to 20
);

consolidate_threads_single(
%config_in,
%config_out,
[
first_dummy_file_for_consolidation.thr.txt,
second_dummy_file_for_consolidation.thr.txt,
],
);

delete_deletables(%config_out);

Mail::Digest::Tools provides useful tools for processing mail which an individual receives in a daily digest version from a mailing list. Digest versions of mailing lists are provided by a variety of mail processing programs and by a variety of list hosts. Within the Perl community, digest versions of mailing lists are offered by such sponsors as Active State, Sourceforge, Yahoo! Groups and London.pm. However, you do not have to be interested in Perl to make use of Mail::Digest::Tools. Mail from any of the thousands of Yahoo! Groups, for example, may be processed with this module.

If, when you receive e-mail from the digest version of a mailing list, you simply read the digest in an e-mail client and then discard it, you may stop reading here. If, however, you wish to read or store such mail by subject, read on. As printed in a normal web browser, this document contains 40 pages of documentation. You are urged to print this documentation out and study it before using this module.

To understand how to use Mail::Digest::Tools, we will first take a look at a typical mailing list digest. We will then sketch how that digest looks once processed by Mail::Digest::Tool. We will then discuss Mail::Digest::Tools exportable functions. Next, we will study how to prepare the two configuration hashes which hold the configuration data. Finally, we will provide some tips for everyday use of Mail::Digest::Tools.