Mailman Mailing Lists

Introduction

Mailman is a free software Electronic Mailing List Manager for managing email discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

New Lists

To request a new list, please click on the appropriate link below:

Request a Mailman mailing list for academic use
Request a Mailman mailing list for a Union society/club

Web Interface

List Information

Publically advertised Mailman mailing lists are are listed here.

You can hide your mailing list from the list above, by going to the "privacy options" section of the list administration site (see below).

List Administration

A link to the list administration site is included within the welcome e-mail when a list is created.

If your list is publically advertised, then you can browse for the site here.

Passwords

Passwords are set per list (for configuration, administration and moderation). Each member of each list has a separate password for each list they belong to. These passwords ARE NOT secure, they ARE NOT your Imperial College login passwords. The default action of lists is to send the password to the relevant member's email address once a month as a reminder of the membership to the list. They are used to control access to user-based list preferences and list archives where applicable.

Further Information

The web interface provides detailed explanations for each configuration option available. If you have any questions, please email mailman@imperial.ac.uk.