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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>History</h2>
<p>The original author of <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> is Guy Antony Halse. He maintained it up to
version 2.1. By then it was functionally complete and convenient.</p>
<p>Since September 02000 no new releases were published.</p>
<p>In January 02005 Guy allowed me to continue the project. I will try to incorporate the suggestions
that were sent to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations will be integrated.</p>
<p>Your suggestions are welcome and will improve <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> whenever possible.</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 co-ordinate it with 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>
- <fontclass="hint">Context sensitive help is provided throughout <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> in the form of image <tt>TITLE</tt> tags, which serve as tooltips.</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>
file in the distribution.</p>
<p>Basically, however, you require the following on your
system:</p>
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<li><ahref="http://www.qmail.org">Qmail</a></li>
<li><ahref="http://www.ezmlm.org">ezmlm</a></li>
<li><ahref="http://www.perl.org">Perl 5</a></li>
<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>
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<h2>How you can contribute</h2>
<p>You can help to improve <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font> in many ways. Some of them are:</p>
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<li>translate it to another language (this takes about an hour) - for now english and german are available</li>
<li>create a nice stylesheet to improve its appearance</li>
<li>send me patches you would like to see incorporated</li>
<li>tell me if you find evidences of my poor english tongue on this page</li>
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<p>If you are interested in the development code of <fontclass="ez">ezmlm-web</font>, then you may
<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>
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