List of mailing list software

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This is a list of notable electronic mailing list software, which facilitate the widespread distribution of email to many Internet users.

Name  | Initial release  | Latest stable release  | Latest release date  | Written in  | Licenses

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Dada Mail | 2000-01  | 11.22.0[1] | 2023-09-18[±] | Perl | GNU GPL
Discourse | 2013  |

3.3.2[2]

2024-10-07; 14 days ago[±]

| Ruby | GNU GPLv2 \+
ezmlm-idx | 1997-06-15[3] | 7.2.2[4] | 2014-05-15  | C | GNU GPLv2
GNU Mailman | 1999-07-30[5] | 3.3.9[6] | 2023-10-20[±] | Python, some C | GNU GPLv2 \+
GroupServer | 2005  | 16.04[7] | 2016-03-01  | Python, some C | GNU GPL
LISTSERV | 1986  | 17.0[8] | 2019-07-09  | ?  | Proprietary
Majordomo | 1992-06  | 1.94.5[9] | 2000-01-19  | Perl | Majordomo License Agreement
phpList | 2000-03[10] | 3.6.14[11] | 2023-10-04[±] | PHP | AGPL
Sympa | 1997-04-01  | 6.2.72[12] | 2023-06-01  | Perl, some C | GNU GPL

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

## References

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1. ^ "Dada Mail 11.22.0 Released!". dadamailproject.com. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
2. ^ "Release 3.3.2". 7 October 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
3. ^ "HISTORY". untroubled.org. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
4. ^ "Archive". untroubled.org. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
5. ^ Warsaw, Barry A. (30 July 1999). "Mailman 1.0". mailman-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2008-12-09.
6. ^ "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager". gnu.org. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
7. ^ "GroupServer 16.04 — Pastis proffered politely — GroupServer 16.04 documentation". groupserver.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
8. ^ L-Soft. "New in LISTSERV 17.0". L-Soft. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
9. ^ http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ [dead link]
10. ^ Changelog for phplist
11. ^ "Releases: phpList /phplist3". github.com. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
12. ^ Stefan Hornburg (1 June 2023). "Sympa 6.2.72 released". Retrieved 1 June 2023.