[Sugar-devel] Mailman's admin and archive interfaces are horrible - suggest GroupServer.org

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Oct 26 05:14:21 EDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:56:05PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On 10/17/2010 07:15 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
>> I'm assuming the infrastructure team are part of this list.
>
>We are, sorry for the long reply time.
>
>> The archives are easily searchable, attached files are converted to 
>> links to the server so that people's inboxes are not flooded.
>
>Removing inline attachments may break PGP/MIME, (although I haven't 
>checked) and some people consider being able to read a message offline 
>in its entirety a feature. I hope that behavior is configurable.
>
>> I welcome any feedback. I think that a migration like this will make 
>> the mailing lists far more accessible as a knowledge archive. I've 
>> been assured that there is a migration path from mailman[4]. From 
>> what I know of Dan, its lead developer, it should be fairly easy & 
>> reliable.
>
>I'll take a look at it. For it to be seriously considered, a mailman 
>path would be needed. The linked tweet notwithstanding, I've not seen 
>any documentation on such a migration.

You might want to consider sympa too: https://www.sympa.org/

It has strong support for PGP/MIME, and a nice default web interface.


  - Jonas

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