Hi Luke, I'm not sure we've met, thanks for joining the discussion :) Happy to hear that these stalwart tools have been serving you well.
if i may be... ah... how can i put this... email sysadmins "giving up" on setting up a mailing list and setting up a *forum* instead, has me concerned.
The challenge described was solely with Mailman 3, otherwise known as the combination of: Mailman Core, Postorius, MailmanClient, HyperKitty, and HyperKitty Mailman plugin. Specifically: Docker images with hard-coded IP addresses, Podman storage layer incompatibilities, and a ruby script that died leaving few clues as to its murderer. No doubt with more time I would have resolved these, but those of us who met have been waiting long enough to continue those discussions. In any case Discourse was a better option from the start in my view, for the features which were mentioned - it has many tools for fostering and managing communities which other systems lack, and has extensive support for mailing-list-like interaction (submit topics by email, reply by email, forward all topics by email). I've also run mailman 2 for over a decade, and it's a reliable ally that's easy to configure. However that's not the best tool for this job. We are fortunate to have a variety of Open Source options in this space, and can each choose the tool which suits us best. Kind regards, Sam. On 11/02/2020 23:47, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:21 PM Sam Tuke <mail@samtuke.com <mailto:mail@samtuke.com>> wrote:
PS Sorry for the delay; I went through three (VPS) servers and wrestled with a variety of copies of Mailman 3 before deciding that Discourse was a better option.
sam... i, ah... i've been running debian, exim4, mailman, fail2ban, greylistd, virtual domains, and at one point even integrated with cyrus2.2, running my mail server now continuously since 2006, and i didn't have any difficulties at all following the instructions on how to set up mailman with debian and exim4.
if i may be... ah... how can i put this... email sysadmins "giving up" on setting up a mailing list and setting up a *forum* instead, has me concerned.
my (extensive) group project management experience immediately leads me to ask: where is the wiki which describes the (full) setup on the fosdem servers (including the config files), so that they can be reviewed, commented on, suggestions made, and improvements discussed?
also, has a staging server been set up so that modifications can be tested out prior to going live?
l.