I currently run my own server, a SUN Cobalt RAQ550. Mailman is installed on it and I have full access to everything.
Because of aging hardware, etc. I will be replacing everything. I am considering going to c-panel as we also host web sites for parts of a national nonprofit for which we also provide the lists.
I have read here over the years about limitations to Mailman on c-Panel? What are they? Are they imposed by the hosting company. Since I will have full access to c-Panel, will I have a fully functional Mailman available to me.
Are the limitations mentioned here imposed by hosting companies?
Dave
David Andrews wrote:
I'm not sure what limitations you're referring to, but if you mean things like limits on the number of messages per hour, those are all imposed by the hosting provider.
If you haven't seen our FAQ on cPanel Mailman, it's at <http://wiki.list.org/x/sYA9>.
The main issue is cPanel has their own patches. The most well known of these is a patch to allow the same list name in two different virtual domains, but this works by just appending the domain to the listname for everything except the list email addresses which means the listname for purposes of the web interface is listname_domain, and it would be the same for command line tools if the command line tools even work.
They have other patches as well which may be buggy, and we can't help with these bugs. There has been at least one such issue in the past <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-February/055639.html>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
David Andrews wrote:
I currently run my own server, a SUN Cobalt RAQ550. Mailman is installed on it and I have full access to everything.
I have done both the C-pannel thing and using my own server with config files etc, and in my experience, unless you are hosting lots of websites like in a hosting environment, there is not much point in using C-pannel. When I was using it, I got very fustrated with what it was trying to do, which was fab in a hosting environment, but not for me, having different requirements for different sites etc.
Hope this helps. Andrew.
David Andrews wrote:
I'm not sure what limitations you're referring to, but if you mean things like limits on the number of messages per hour, those are all imposed by the hosting provider.
If you haven't seen our FAQ on cPanel Mailman, it's at <http://wiki.list.org/x/sYA9>.
The main issue is cPanel has their own patches. The most well known of these is a patch to allow the same list name in two different virtual domains, but this works by just appending the domain to the listname for everything except the list email addresses which means the listname for purposes of the web interface is listname_domain, and it would be the same for command line tools if the command line tools even work.
They have other patches as well which may be buggy, and we can't help with these bugs. There has been at least one such issue in the past <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-February/055639.html>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
David Andrews wrote:
I currently run my own server, a SUN Cobalt RAQ550. Mailman is installed on it and I have full access to everything.
I have done both the C-pannel thing and using my own server with config files etc, and in my experience, unless you are hosting lots of websites like in a hosting environment, there is not much point in using C-pannel. When I was using it, I got very fustrated with what it was trying to do, which was fab in a hosting environment, but not for me, having different requirements for different sites etc.
Hope this helps. Andrew.
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