Email server update - migration from Mailman 2

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 10:24 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This evening I have been investigating our options surrounding Mailman 2 upgrade paths as part of an evaluation to replace our current primary mail server (Letterbox) which runs Ubuntu 20.04 with a newer system running 22.04.
>
> One of the consequences of this upgrade will be that we will be forced to migrate off Mailman 2 as it is no longer available and distributed in Ubuntu 22.04.
>
> The most likely candidate for this is naturally Mailman 3 (an instance of which can be found at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/)
>
> It appears to be a substantial improvement in all regards over Mailman 2, and therefore I intend to upgrade to that at this stage.
>
> Important considerations to note as part of this:
> - Existing list moderator and administrator passwords will cease to work, as Mailman 3 uses individual accounts to manage this
> - Mailman 3 uses a completely different URL format, so existing list archive links will likely be broken. It may be possible to retain static copies of the existing Pipermail archives to mitigate the impact of this but they won't be updated any further following the upgrade.
>
> Further information will be announced closer to the time.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben

Wikimedia has made this switch some time ago and as someone using
Malman 3 there and administering a few lists: Yes please! It's a huge
improvement.
Looking forward to it.

Cheers
Lydia

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