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Re: Debian presence on newer platforms



On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Jonas Meurer wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> Alexander Wirt:
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >> Alexander Wirt:
> >>> In my experience as a former mailman admin and listadmin mailman is a
> >>> no-go.
> >>> Getting our feature set even nearly into mailman is impossible, takes years
> >>> and will just get us an unmaintainable thing. I don't want to ever run a
> >>> bigger mailman setup again. 
> >>
> >> Can you give an example, what from "our feature set" is missing in
> >> mailman? Also, you probably mean mailman2, right? Have you taken a look
> >> at mailman3 recently?
> >
> > Sure, just a few coming into mind: 
> > 
> > All those gpg related features we use, our spam removal tools, our special
> > archiving hacks, we way we support blacklist through several lists, our
> > second line of spamfiltering, crossassassin, the way we can do management on
> > several lists and probably a lot more I forgot. It may take man years to do a
> > migration (in fact we talked about that a few days ago in our internal IRC
> > channel and this is more or less consense about the needed effort). 
> 
> Thanks for elaborating on that. At least some of them might be
> interesting to submit as mailman3 feature requests as they probably
> would be of help for other projects that use mailman3 as well.
> 
> I fully understand that you as the listmasters don't consider to switch
> right now though.
> 
> > And I tested hyperkitty some time ago with our archive and it was
> > unusable slow.
> 
> Interesting. I wonder how Fedora deals with this. I haven't used their
> archives extensively, but from quick tests it appeared to be quite
> responsive.
One question that came into mind: which problems with our lists do you think
mailman would solve? 

If its list archives: provide (or let someone do so) a hyperkitty plugin for
reading our mboxes (bonus points if its able to also remove mails from it
afterwards (gpdr, spam). 

Alex

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