RELEASED Mailman 2.1.2

[Barry Warsaw]

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I've released version 2.1.2 of Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager.
Mailman is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Version 2.1.2 is a bug fix release, including language updates and two
new languages, Portuguese/Portugal and Polish.  It is recommend that all
Mailman 2.1.x sites upgrade to version 2.1.2.

Mailman is free software that enables users to manage email mailing
lists and e-newsletters.  Its integrated web interface provides
easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators.  Mailman
supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content
filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Mailman is compatible with most web servers, web browsers, and mail
servers.  It runs on any Unix-like operating system.  Mailman 2.1.2
requires Python 2.1.3 or newer.  To install Mailman from source, you
will need a C compiler.

For more information on Mailman, including links to file downloads,
please see any of the Mailman mirror web pages:

    http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
    http://mailman.sourceforge.net
    http://www.list.org (not yet updated)

Patches and source tarballs are available at

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D103

There are email lists (managed by Mailman, of course!) for both
Mailman users and developers.  See the web sites above for details.

Cheers,
-Barry

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2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003)

    - New languages Portuguese (Portugal) and Polish.

    - Many convenient constants have been added to the Defaults.py
      module to (hopefully) make it more readable.

    - Email addresses which contain 8-bit characters in them are now
      rejected and won't be subscribed.  This is not the same as 8-bit
      characters in the realname, which is still allowed.

    - The X-Originating-Email header is removed for anonymous lists.
      Hotmail apparently adds this header.

    - When running make to build Mailman, you can specify $DESTDIR to
      the install target to specify an alternative location for
      installation, without influencing the paths stored in
      e.g. Defaults.py.  This is useful to package managers.

    - New Defaults.py variable DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT which controls how
      long the outgoing qrunner will wait before it retries a
      tempfailure delivery.

    - The semantics for the extend.py hook to MailList objects has
      changed slightly.  The hook is now called before attempting to
      lock and load the database.

    - Mailman now uses the email package version 2.5.1

    - bin/transcheck now checks for double-%'s

    - bin/genaliases grew a -q / --quiet flag

    - cron/checkdbs grew a -h / --help option.

    - The -c / --change-msg option has been removed from bin/add_members

    - bin/msgfmt.py has been added, taken from Python 2.3's Tools/i18n
      directory.  The various .mo files are now no longer distributed
      with Mailman.  They are generated at build time instead.

    - A new file misc/sitelist.cfg which can be used with
      bin/config_list provides a small number of recommended settings
      for your site list.  Be sure to read it over before applying!
      sitelist.cfg is installed into the data directory.

    - Many bug fixes, including these SourceForge bugs closed and
      patches applied: 677668, 690448, 700538, 700537, 673294, 683906,
      671294, 522080, 521124, 534297, 699900, 697321, 695526, 703941,
      658261, 710678, 707608, 671303, 717096, 694912, 707624, 716755,
      661138, 716754, 716702, 667167, 725369, 726415


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