SW Neighborhoods, Inc. Empowering Citizens since 1978

We have installed the Mailman mailing list open-source software on our server. With it, you can quickly and easily send eMail to list subscribers. Mailman supports a variety of features:

• High-performance mail delivery
• A customizable home page for each mailing list.
• Manage lists via a web interface (also supports Majordomo-style email based commands)
• Privacy controls
• Automatic bounced-eMail processing (e.g. disable user, unsubscribe user, etc.)
• Announce-only lists
• Community conversation lists
• Optional moderation (i.e. post approvals)
• Subscription confirmation
• Bulk subscriptions (forced or by invitation)
• Web-based archiving
• Per-list privacy features:
  • Open or closed subscriptions
  • Public or private archives
  • Public, group-only or private membership rosters
  • Sender-based posting rules
• “Real name” support for members
• Users may change their subscription options via the web, including:
  • Subscribe/unsubscribe
  • Privacy options (e.g. hide eMail address from other members)
  • Receive digests
  • Change their eMail address
  • Account configuration
  • View list archives
  • Vacation mode (i.e. temporarily disable accounts)
• Auto-replies
• Multiple list owners and moderators are possible
• Multi-lingual support: list web pages and email notices can be in any of nearly two dozen supported language, configurable per-site, per-list, and per-user
• Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users immediately).
• Configurable (per-list and per-user) delivery mode
  • Regular (immediate) delivery
  • MIME digest
  • Plain (RFC 1153) digests

For more details, please see the Mailman documentation.