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Re: mailman [was: Google threatens to break Gmail]

2015-10-24 20:44:18
On jeu. 22 oct. 2015 à 12:23:42, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Russ Housley wrote:
There is an easy answer to this, that we discussed on this list over a year 
ago - just bring mailman up to a more recent revision. It can handle DMARC 
re-writing just fine.

My understanding is that we are using Mailman 2.1.15.  Mailman 2.1.20 and 
3.0.0 are available.  We have not asked the Secretariat to reviewed every 
change, but I am told that they are comfortable that Mailman 2.1.20 is fine. 
We have not looked at Mailman 3.0.0 at all.

Versions of Mailman beyond 2.1.15 have no capacity for sending out password 
reminders; it was removed.  Brian, you have loudly argued for this 
capability to be retained.

It seems to me that DMARC re-writing is a more important feature for this 
community.  I think we should drop support for the password messages and 
move to a newer version.  I'd like the tools team to check this out, and 
then if the newer version will not introduce other surprises, move to the 
newer version.

Russ

Or, one might consider a switch to a different list manager entirely.  Sympa
is really excellent for handling large numbers of lists, handles DMARC
issues, doesn't send cleartext password reminders, is incredibly well
supported.

Just a thought,

Actually, Mailman 3 got released during this year and seems to be really
good at fixing some great issues from previous versions.

But sure, the migration won't be painless.

-- 
PEB