Thanks everyone for all of these answers! I've passed them on to the groupserver maintainer who has created this comparison chart: http://groupserver.org/groupserver/features/feature-comparison
There are still some gaps to be filled and perhaps this could be the basis of a wikipedia page and Sympa could be added to the comparison as well. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Ian Eiloart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kẏra, > > Some additional answers, inline below. Most of your questions relate to > the web archiver, and Nico has answered some of those. In order to get all > the questions and answers in the same place (so people can see which > questions aren’t yet answered here), I’ve rolled Nico’s comments into this > reply. > > On 7 Oct 2013, at 03:38, Kẏra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Kẏra and I am the technology director of the Free Culture > > Foundation as well as a campaigns organizer for the Free Software > > Foundation and we're in need up upgrading our mailing lists to a more > > web-friendly system. I'm doing research on newer list severs to see how > > they compare. So far Groupserver seems to provide everything, but if > > Mailman 3 is going to be released soon, we'd like to consider that as > well. > > > > I'm making a comparison chart and wanted to ask about Mailman 3 (and > > Postorius) features. Answers to any and all of the following with regards > > to Mailman 3 + Postorius would be super helpful: > > > > Can you post from the web interface? > yes > > Is there file upload support? > yes > > Is there now a search feature? Can it search multiple lists? > yes, yes > > Are there web feeds (atom or rss)? Generated from lists? searches? > threads? > > files? > Nico’s plugin API seems to be offering support for this. > > > Are posts and administration integrated into the web interface? > I think that site and list administration are not part of the hyperkitty > > Can you specify a posting rate restriction? > > I don’t know. > > > Is full css customization for the web interface supported? > > Is css customization for the email interface supported? > > Hyperkitty supports "themes". I’m guessing you’ll be able to roll your own. > > > Is there site-side logging? (as opposed to server side) > Logging (apart from web accesses) would be a Mailman responsibility. I’m > not sure what you mean by "site-side", but perhaps you’re after remote > reporting on a domain of yours hosted a third party at a remote site. > Again, that’s possible. It could be provided through a web interface, or > some other means. > > > Is there a link to the post in the web interface in the footer of > messages? > > That’ll require co-operation between Mailman and the web archive. But, if > the web archive URL is predictable, then I think Mailman will be able to do > this. > > > Now that users are more than just email addresses, can you request to > > contact a list member? > > Do you mean from their profile page, or from a list of members? > > > Can users have multiple email addresses? > > Yes, that’s a part of users being more than just email addresses. > > > Are there profile pages where you can see a summary of their latest > posts? > yes > > Can the web interface hide quoted text? > yes > > Are usage statistics provided? > > The Hyperkitty change log for 0.1 alpha says "show basic list info and > metrics". Certainly the Mailman 2 logs provide enough information from > which useful usage stats could be derived. If Hyperkitty doesn’t provide > the stats that you want, you’ll likely be able to get them from the log > files. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Also, did Mailman 2 already support LMTP and virtual domains or are those > > new? > > They’re new. Mailman 2 did have partial support of virtual domains, but > there was a restriction whereby no two domains could have a list with the > same name: so I can’t imagine that this would be useful. > > > > > Best, > > Kẏra > > > > -- > > Board of Directors, Free Culture Foundation: www.freeculture.org > > Campaigns Organizer, Free Software Foundation: www.fsf.org > > > > Blog: http://kxra.info - StatusNet Microblog: http://identi.ca/kxra > > Email: [email protected] - SMS: +1.617.340.3661 > > Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] - IRC: kxra @freenode @oftc @indymedia > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailman-Developers mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/iane%40sussex.ac.uk > > > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > > -- > Ian Eiloart > Postmaster, University of Sussex > +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 > > -- Board of Directors, Free Culture Foundation: www.freeculture.org Campaigns Organizer, Free Software Foundation: www.fsf.org Blog: http://kxra.info - StatusNet Microblog: http://identi.ca/kxra Email: [email protected] - SMS: +1.617.340.3661 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] - IRC: kxra @freenode @oftc @indymedia _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
