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GNU Mailman

GNU Mailman manages your mailing lists.

The Mailman project develops the GNU Mailman mailing list manager. Our goals are RFC conformance and powerful convenient tools for subscribers, moderators, list owners, domain administrators, and site adminstrators of mailing lists.

python
django
rest
sqlalchemy
zope

email
archives
list management

Project ideas

14 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 12 that state a difficulty: 7 medium, 5 hard. 10 mentors named.

Documentation & Installation
GSoC Application Process
User Profile Tool medium
Moderating Emails and Threads in Hyperkitty medium
Improved UI for Subscription Management medium
Dynamic Sublists (aka Conversations) hard
Topics hard
HTML Digests hard
Configurable Mail Footers medium
Per-list backup medium
Shell Completions medium
Log Access from the Web UI hard
Implement Domain Administration medium
IMAP Access to Archives hard

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

Not in the public archive yet (its first year, or listed under another name).

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

Website: https://www.list.org
Ideas page: https://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202026
Contributor guide: https://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202022
Source code: https://gitlab.com/mailman
Mailing list: mailman-developers@python.org
Mailing list: mailman-users@mailman3.org
Chat: https://web.libera.chat/#mailman

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "GNU Mailman" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "GNU Mailman"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "GNU Mailman"

or ask your assistant:
"Which GNU Mailman repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.