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Re: Debian presence on newer platforms



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.

Cheers,
 jonas

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