MIT Mailman User Guide

MIT Mailman

MIT Information Services and Technology is pleased to announce the availability of Mailman to the MIT Community with limited support. Mailman is a modern web-based list management system that has been adopted by a number of our peer institutions.

New Mailman lists may be requested from User Accounts. Once the list is created, you will receive email with instructions on how to administer your list from a web site. Many existing Mailman lists are available from http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo. Each Mailman web site contains extensive documentation for each option that an owner or subscriber (list member) may set. Please consult the current installation of Mailman for the most current help pages.

The pages below reflect an older version of Mailman. Please consult the current installation of Mailman for the most current help pages.

Quickstart to Mailman

General Options
Passwords
Language Options
Subscriber Options / Membership Management (includes LISTSERV comparison)
Subscriber email interface
Digest & Non-digest Options
Privacy & Moderation Options
Bounce Processing
Archiving Options
Mail<->News gateways
Auto-responder
Content filtering
Topics
Editing the look of the list web pages

Comparison of LISTSERV Keywords & Mailman List Options
Comparison of Athena List Features & Mailman List Options

Additional Mailman documentation is available from a number of sources on the web:


MIT Updated January 13, 2006. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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