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INDEX ENTRY FOR MAJORDOMO:
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Name: Majordomo - Maintains Internet mailing lists
Version: 1.94.3
Author(s): Majordomo Project <majordomo-project@GreatCircle.COM>
Majordomo is a "groupware" project. It has evolved from the
initial code base done by Brent Chapman (brent@greatcircle.com),
with further maintenance done by John Rouillard (rouilj@cs.umb.edu).
The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson (cwilson@sgi.com).
The FAQ was compiled by Vincent D. Skahan and is currently being
maintained by David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu>.
-- Quoted from the 1.94.1 README file
On the CD-ROM in: mail/majrdomo.tar
Ftp source: ftp.greatcircle.com:pub/majordomo/majordomo.tar.Z
Size on the CD: 1.2 MB (uncompressed)
Description:
Majordomo is a program that automates the management of Internet
mailing lists. Commands are sent to Majordomo via electronic mail
to handle all aspects of list maintainance. Once a list is set up,
virtually all operations can be performed remotely, requiring no
intervention by the postmaster of the list site.
Here's a short list of some of the features of Majordomo:
* Supports various types of mailing lists, including moderated lists
* List options can be easily set through a configuration file,
which is editable remotely
* Supports archival and remote retrieval of messages
* Supports digests
* Written in Perl, - easily customizable and expandable
* Modular in design
* Includes support for FTPMAIL
-- Adapted from the 1.94.1 README file
Advertised architectures: none specified
Prerequisites: Perl version 4.036 or 5.002 (or better), C compiler