[Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

[Mailman Admin]

On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote:
> 
> I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future
> direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for
> this list.
> 
> The University of Oregon is migrating away from Majordomo.  We
> decided on Sympa because Mailman sends passwords over email
<... >
> Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman,
> clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release?
> 
You can stop the cronjob used to email reminders.
With this you don't email them to the users, but they will still be
saved in clear text in Mailman.

> I've written a number of Django apps using my own LDAP module, so I
> was also wondering if folks think now is a mature-enough time to
> perhaps grab Mailman 3, its Django front-end, and hack together what
> I'm after?
> A final, random question: Mailman 3 is still in alpha, but is it
> stable given that it's almost been in alpha for 4 years?
> 

Didn't test it yet, so no comment from me.


Kind regards,
Christian Mack