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a web interface for mailing lists' administration
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02005/01/25 - ezmlm-web Version 2.2 released
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+ - german translation
+ - security fixes
+ - create-permissions per user
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Overview
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ezmlm-web is a web interface for the administration of ezmlm 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.
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History
+The original author of
ezmlm-web is Guy Antony Halse. He maintained it up to version 2.1. By then it was functionally complete and convenient.
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Since September 02000 no new releases were published.
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In January 02005 Guy allowed me to continue the project. I will try to incorporate the suggestions that were send to Guy so far. Additional security improvements and translations will be integrated.
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Your suggestions are welcome and will improve ezmlm-web whenever possible.
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How can ezmlm-web help you?
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ezmlm 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 proves to be very complicated
+and not particularly intuative to those with a windows sort of backround.
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Unfortunatly, this is often a large percentage of any organisation's
+subscriber base - and thus there is a definate need to hide these
+complexities.
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ezmlm-web 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.
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ezmlm-web 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.
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Features
+Some of the important features that
ezmlm-web offers are;
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+- Full Virtual Host Support
+- ezmlm-web hides the complexities of setting up virtually hosted mailing lists from your users.
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+- Multi-Level Access
+- You can control who has access to different mailing lists.
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+- Name Association
+- You can enter any RFC 822 email address, and it will display the nice name while refering to the email address.
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+- Configurable Interface
+- Most of the "look & feel" of ezmlm-web is configured through templates, allowing you to easily co-ordinate it with your existing website.
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+- Language Independence
+- ezmlm-web can be easily reconfigured for different locales and languages.
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+- Context Sensitive Help
+- Context sensitive help is provided throughout ezmlm-web in the form of image TITLE tags, which serve as tooltips.
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+- Full support for all command line options
+- ezmlm-web 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 :-)
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+- Browser Independence
+- ezmlm-web has been tested with Mozilla 1.73, Firefox 1.0, Netscape Navigator 4.7, Lynx 2.8.3, w3m 0.1.11-pre and Internet Explorer 5.0
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+- Platform Independence
+- ezmlm-web should run on any platform that can run ezmlm and Perl
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+- Multiple Subscribes/Unsubscribes
+- ezmlm-web supports file uploads for bulk subscription of email addresses, and multiple selects for bulk deletes.
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Requirements
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A full list of requirements is available in the README
+file in the distribution.
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Basically, however, you require the following on your
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