Subject: Announce: MailMan Web<->Mail Gateway (free)
From: "Ryan Alyn Porter" <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Sep 1997 15:16:07 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

Announement:
Endymion Corporation's MailMan v1.1 has been posted to the Endymion
Corporation web site (http://www.endymion.com/) at
http://www.endymion.com/portfolio/software/scripts/mailman.htm .  The
script is free for anyone to download, no strings attached.

MailMan is a simple script written in Perl5 which uses the CGI protocol to
allow users to read and send email through standard POP3 and SMTP servers
from any form-capable web browser.  MailMan presents an interface which is
roughly similar (although much simpler) to the interfaces provided by many
of free Internet email services popping up all over lately.  The difference
is that MailMan allows individual sites to own and control their own
private Web<->Mail gateway, without depending upon an outside service. 
MailMan is designed for users who are away from their desks, in conjunction
with a 'primary' mail reading program.  By default, it does not delete
messages from the server.

The MailMan script is easily installed on any web server and can
communicate with POP3 and SMTP servers which are not necessarily
co-located.  The MailMan script is designed to be downloaded and installed
by people with little or no experience with CGI, Perl, POP3, SMTP, etc. 
MailMan has no dependencies, it handles SMTP, POP3, and CGI internally so
that there is only one file to download.  The only requirements are Perl5
and a CGI-capable web server.  MailMan has been tested on both Unix and NT
servers, as well as a wide variety of POP3 and SMTP servers, including the
very strict QMail server.

MailMan can be 'customized' when it is installed, to reflect the look and
feel of a particular web site.  It can also be configured in a personalized
mode, which allows users to use their own initialization files, complete
with signatures, preset 'From' lines, and preset server addresses.  In this
personalized mode, MailMan can also use the host web server for
authentication by storing the user's POP3 password in an initialization
file on the server, if the user so desires.

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  Ryan Alyn Porter           Endymion                    [email-masked]
  President                 Corporation           http://www.endymion.com
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