Mailspammer

Mailspammer is a set of scripts for managing smaller mailing lists without requiring administrator rights. As long as you can setup an e-mail alias, or have your admin setup an e-mail alias for you, Mailspammer will work. While it is possible to create an account dedicated solely to handling a mailing list, that's really not neccessary.

Mailspammer is a set of perl scripts and procmail filters that facilitate adding users to a list, removing users from a list, and sending messages through the list. Mailspammer optionally supports Moderation of messages and Archiving of messages. See the README for more details

Mailspammer works with Sendmail and other MTAs that define Sendmail-alike interfaces, such as Postfix. It has been tested against those two MTAs, but is not guaranteed to work with others. Help here would be appreciated, as the author has only tested Mailspammer with Postfix and Sendmail.

Changes

1.3
- Major architecture redesign. Split variables out into a header, so that a single rule list can be used system-wide. (Todd)
- New installation routine. (Todd)
- New setup script. (Todd)
1.2
- Bug fix. Procmail 3.15 complained about several rules. (Jan Niggemann)
- Added a ban list, for those times when it's neccessary to blacklist specific email addresses. Options for handling banned mail include archiving (to a folder or /dev/null) or sending to an e-mail address that will handle banned mail in some manner not specified by Mailspammer. (Todd)
1.1
- Added a flag to set the reply-to address on mails sent from the list (Reb)
- Added a modifiable, optional, list-specific subject addition, to allow adding a list stamp to subject lines. Properly handles Replied messages (Todd)
- Minor ruleset optimization (Jan Niggemann)
1.0
- Initial Release

Latest Files

Download mailspam-1.3.tar.gz

Older Files

Download mailsapm-1.2.tar.gz
Download mailspam-1.1.tar.gz
Download mailspam-1.0.tar.gz

Authors

MailSpammer was written by Todd Ostermeier with help from Reb. It was originally based on an idea from http://www.stimpy.net/procmail/tutorial/ but has since taken on a life of its own.

Feedback

Please send any questions or comments to mailspam@daishar.com. To join the MailSpammer mailing list, send mail to mailspam@daishar.com with the word "Subscribe" in the subject.