<fontclass="title">02005/01/24 - the work of <ahref="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/">Guy Antony Halse</a> will be continued ... here</font>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
<p><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is a web interface for the administration of <ahref="http://ezmlm.org">ezmlm</a> mailing lists. It allows complete control over their configuration by using a web browser. User-based access control relieves administrators from the burden of managing all their mailing lists on their own.</p>
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<h2>How can <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> help you?</h2>
<p><fontclass="ez"><ahref="http://www.ezmlm.org">ezmlm</a></font> uses a mainly
command line interface for the creation and maintainence
of mailing lists. While this is very convenient for the average systems
administrator who is used to such interfaces, it restrains him from transferring
administrative work to users who want to manage a community on their own.</p>
<p><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is an attempt to hide the complexities of managing a mailing list
behind and intuative, easy to use web based interface. The idea behind this
is threefold. Firstly just about everyone these days can use a web browser,
or can learn very quickly. Secondly it provides almost complete platform
independence on the client side - there are GUI web browsers available for
every major modern operating system. Thirdly, and perhaps more importantly,
it makes easy remote administration a real possibility.</p>
<p><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> allows the user to easily add and remove
mailing list subscribers, create and delete mailing lists as well as alter
the configuration of existing mailing lists. Almost every aspect of the
mailing list is controlable through the web front end, allowing the list
user to do most things without the assistance of the systems administrators.</p>
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<h2>Features</h2>
Some of the important features that <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> offers are;
- <fontclass="hint">Most of the "look & feel" of <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is configured through templates, allowing you to easily integrate it into your existing website.</font></li>
- <fontclass="hint"><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> can be easily reconfigured for different locales and languages. For now you can only choose between english and german - your contribution for other languages is welcome.</font></li>
<li><fontclass="feature">Full support for all command line options</font>
- <fontclass="hint"><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> has been updated to take advantage of all the command line features of ezmlm-idx 0.40. And should be compatible with any further releases :-)</font></li>
- <fontclass="hint"><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> should run on any platform that can run <ahref="http://www.ezmlm.org/">ezmlm</a> and <ahref="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a></font></li>
- <fontclass="hint"><fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> supports file uploads for bulk subscription of email addresses, and multiple selects for bulk deletes.</font></li>
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
<p> A full list of requirements is available in the <ahref="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/ezmlm-web-2.1/README">README</a>
<li>+ a few <ahref="http://www.cpan.org">perl modules</a><fontclass="hint">(including the <ahref="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/#Mail::Ezmlm">Mail::Ezmlm</a> module from the author of <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font>)</font></li>
<li>and a webserver such as <ahref="http://www.apache.org">Apache</a></li>
<p>You are also invited to use the project's <ahref="https://systemausfall.org/trac/ezmlm-web"title="trac - our issue tracker">bug tracking system</a>.</p>
<p>You may join the project's mailinglist by sending an email to <fontclass="mail"><ahref="mailto:ezmlm-web-subscribe@lists.systemausfall.org"name="mailing list subscription">ezmlm-web-subscribe@lists.systemausfall.org</a></font>.</p>
<p>As I am no native english speaker, I will gladly accept every hint to improve the appearance of this website.</p>
<p>Nearly every line of <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> was written by <ahref="http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/">Guy Antony Halse</a> - thanks a lot for this work!</p>
<p>If you have any suggestions regarding <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font>, please send a mail to <fontclass="mail">ezmlm-web[AT]sumpfralle.de</font>.</p>