Ivan Fetch <ifetch@du.edu> wrote:

Hello,

We are planning to move our Mailman installation from Solaris to Linux, and upgrade in the process. I'd love to hear from anyone who has run production Mailman on Linux.

What experiences have list members had with RedHat vs. Ubuntu Mailman packages, vs. compiling Mailman from source?

At this point, even though I prefer to use packages when possible, I am leaning toward compiling Mailman from source because of:

1. Red Hat packages are typically more ancient
2. Ubuntu packages seem to include non-standard patches to Mailman (still sorting this out)

Additionally, has anyone run into problems with Python packages provided by Red Hat and Ubuntu?

Check the archives of the list. I run Mailman 2.1.13 (soon to be 14) on Ubuntu Dapper (to be converted to the latest LTS release). I built my own Mailman package from the SourceForge source because most of the Debian/Ubuntu patches were undocumented as to what they did, and one removed a necessary library. Contact me off-line for more details.

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