List of mailing list software

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

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

Name	Initial release	Latest stable release	Latest release date	Written in	Licenses
Dada Mail	2000-01	11.8.1[1]	2020-01-08[±]	Perl	GNU GPL
Discourse	2013	2.5.0[2]	2020-06-24[±]	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]	3.3.1[6]	2020-04-19[±]	Python, some C	GNU GPLv2 +
GroupServer	2005	16.04[7]	2016-03-01	Python, some C	GNU GPL
LISTSERV	1986	16.5[8]	2019-07-09		proprietary
Majordomo	1992-06	1.94.5[9]	2000-01-19	Perl	Majordomo License Agreement
Organic Groups Mailing List	2010-04-12[10]	7.x-1.1.alpha2[11]	2014-04-06	PHP	GNU GPL
phpList	2000-03[12]	3.5.3[13]	2020-04-22[±]	PHP	AGPL
Sympa	1997-04-01	6.2.48[14]	2019-09-29	Perl, some C	GNU GPL

References

1. "Dada Mail Documentation - 11.8.1 Stable 01/08/20". dadamailproject.com. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
2. "Releases - discourse/discourse". github.com. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
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 2020-05-21.
7. https://groupserver.readthedocs.io/en/16.04/release-notes-1604.html
8. http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_160.asp
9. http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
10. Mathews, Kyle (12 April 2010). "Initial commit of the og_mailinglist module" (Mailing list). Retrieved 2014-09-30.
11. "drupal.org". drupal.org. 2014-04-06. Retrieved 2014-09-30.
12. Changelog for phplist
13. "Releases: phpList /phplist3". github.com. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
14. "Sympa mailing list server". sympa.org. Retrieved 22 October 2019.