Re: [TCLUG:19112] Mailman conversion

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Ben Beuchler (insyte@emt-p.org):
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:10:53PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> > On July 1st, I'll convert the TCLUG mailing lists to Mailman. 
> > 
> > I'll leave old list up for 1 week zone the mn-linux.org zone will expire. Then
> > everyone should have the new IPs, MX for the new box.
> 
> As someone who is planning on converting about 20 fairly large mailing
> lists from majordomo to ezmlm, why are you moving away from it?  Just
> curious, as I was also considering mailman but felt ezmlm's tight
> integration with qmail was a real selling point...

Mailman works with qmail as well.

Biggest problem is ezmlm does not have a nice way of web archiving the
messages.

Next problem, even with ezweb, ezmlm is no where as easy to admin as Mailman.
Since we mailing lists where users are, hmmm, not technical :-) the web
interface rocks.

Next, qmail/ezmlm installation sucks. All these dependencies of uid and
account names. Makes it really hard to compile the stuff on 1 box and deploy
it on another. Especially when you don't install a development environment on
your list servers.

Finally, qmail/ezmlm upgrade/maintenance sucks. It never 'drops' into place.
You always have to tweak something. I have done 3 upgrades of Mailman, each
has been flawless. As a busy admin, this is a godsend.

I will miss the security and SPEED of qmail, but from admin point and end-user
point Mailman is a better product.

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