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June 15, 2000
Mailman Made Easy

Mailman is the free software contender to mail-server products such as Lyris, which feature GUI-driven administration, user-level access to preferences, and built-in archives, digests, and the like. Based on the popular Python programming language, Mailman is intended to be used on UNIX systems, and can be installed alongside Majordomo on the same server, without conflicts. It has a few notable weaknesses, like that it can't easily be made aware of virtual hosts (although with a good dose of Apache configuration and some virtusertable tweaks it could probably be made to work.) I won't discuss that in this article, however, so let's not dawdle.