On 06/17/2016 12:16 PM, Bill wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some information on Mailman3 administration. I've found that it's not yet packaged by any of the common Linux distros - Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, RedHat, Centos, Fedora, Suse, Arch etc so I have some concerns about the amount of upkeep that running Mailman3 will entail.
I know that Mailman2 is available as a package on the above distros, but we would really like to take advantage of the kludge-free, virtual domains feature on Mailman3.
I've been asked by a local non-profit provider to assist them in moving their 200+ mailing lists from an outdated Sympa list server to Debian8/Postfix/Mailman. One of their chief concerns is the amount of extra administration, over and above normal list administration, that Mailman3 will require in the form of manual updates and maintenance.
We are in the evaluation and design stage right now, but could use any pertinent advice about supportive distros, available packages, the amount of extra administration involved or perhaps, in a worst case scenario, alternate list managers supporting a virtual domains feature similar to Mailman3.
Thanks for your help,
Bill McGrath President, Vancouver Linux Users Group https://vanlug.bc.ca
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That said, we are working on packaging for a more turn-key installation, but we aren't there yet. I've installed a couple of instances including the one at lists.mailman3.org, and it does require extra work. Some of the work in my case is because I want to run all the Mailman pieces from the heads of their branches rather than what's in PyPI, but even without that, installation is significantly more work than installing a distro's package.
I will be writing up my experiences, but that's not done yet either.
I will say that once you have Mailman 3 installed and running, updating (which I do frequently, but which doesn't need to be done unless you want specific updates/fixes) is pretty easy.
As far as alternatives are concerned There is an up to date Mailman 2.1 branch with better virtual domain support at <https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/vhost>, but I think in the long run, you'd be better off with Mailman 3.
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