in indymedia (http://indymedia.org) and sindominio (http://sindomino.net) we saw the necessity to protect the admin part of mailman (above all the password transmission) with a ssl connection.

We protect all of mailman with an Apache rewrite rule. This is probably overkill for public archives, but since all of our archives are private:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/mailman/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/mailman/$1 [R,L]

Simple, and survives upgrades :-)

-- Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com> http://blog.cfrq.net/chk/

When you have accidentally boarded the wrong train, there is no point running down the corridor in the opposite direction.