[Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)
Phillip L. Harbison
alvitar at xavax.com
Wed Nov 20 13:13:05 CET 2002
Arlen Walker wrote:
> Ok, this may be too elementary, but you *do* realize MHonarc works
> perfectly well with Mailman, don't you?
I saw a reference to external archivers in the documentation,
but I have not pursued that option.
> So the reason you want to switch over to Pipermail is.....?
There are several.
[1] I want most of my archives to be private. The way I'm currently
doing this with MHonarc is setting up a user in my web server
(Netscape Enterprise) and broadcasting the password to the list.
I prefer the use Mailman's user authentication.
[2] I like the way Pipermail automatically breaks the archives up
by {month,quarter,year} and creates an index of indexes. My
larger MHonarc archives get rather cumbersome.
[3] I like the way Mailman/Pipermail obscures the email addresses,
although it could be better.
[4] I'd prefer to maintain only one package.
If these are not valid reasons, please clue me in.
Jon Carnes wrote:
> MHonArch has many superior features that will probably never make
> it into Pipermail [...]
Would you kindly elaborate on these superior features? I've been
using MHonArc for about a year and I don't see much difference.
I've spent a fair amount of time hacking MHonarc configuration
files and I'm still not completely satisfied. Pipermail does what
I want out of the box.
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Phil Harbison
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