SubEthaMail
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| Developer: | Jeff Schnitzer, Jon Stevens, Scott Hernandez, Ian McFarland |
| Latest release: | 0.9.6 / November 2006 |
| Use: | Mailing lists |
| License: | LGPL |
| Website: | subetha |
SubEtha Mail is software for managing electronic mailing lists. It is free software/open source software, distributed freely under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
SubEtha Mail is written in the Java programming language and runs on the JBoss application server. It relies on a variety of tools and APIs, including J2EE, Hibernate, Lucene, Tagonist, and Velocity. Data is stored in a relational database such as Mysql, PostgreSQL, or Oracle. The SubEtha Mail source code is intended to be a public tutorial in the use of these tools.
[edit] Comparison with Mailman
In principle, SubEtha Mail is similar in many respects to the dominant Mailman package. Both systems allow users to create and subscribe to mailing lists using a web interface. However, the differences include:
- SubEtha is written in Java and relies on features of the JBoss application server. Mailman is written in Python.
- SubEtha stores data in a database. Mailman stores data in specially-formatted files on the host's filesystem.
- SubEtha is designed to run in a clustered environment. Clustering Mailman is undocumented.
- SubEtha offers configurable per-list role-based permissions. Mailman provides three fixed authorization levels - administrator, moderator, and subscriber.
- SubEtha allows users to subscribe multiple email addresses to an account and self-moderate messages from those email addresses. Mailman views each email address as a separate account.
- SubEtha allows list@example.com and list@example2.com to be separate lists. Mailman list names (part before the @domain) must be unique.
- SubEtha provides searchable archives that are customized for the viewer. Mailman archives are static text.
- SubEtha runs on Windows as well as Unix-like systems such as Linux and MacOS X. Mailman runs only on Unix-like operating systems.
- SubEtha is easier to integrate with existing mail transfer agents such as Postfix, Exim, or Microsoft_Exchange.
- Mailman offers a digest mode. SubEtha currently does not.
- SubEtha is relatively new and still in beta. Mailman is a mature, proven product in use on thousands of websites.
[edit] External links
- SubEtha Mail (Official website)
- SubEtha Users mailing list
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