On 3/25/2005 19:05, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 6:31 PM -0800 2005-03-25, John W. Baxter wrote: > >> But at any rate, Exim 3 to ?? Is a very good opportunity to consider Postfix >> rather than Exim 4 as the ??. Mailman 2.x to 3.0 will likely present a >> similar opportunity to look around at what else there is. > > I suspect that Mailman 2.x to 3.x will not be that rough. Yes, > the architectural changes internally are quite massive, but I see no > reason that a "make upgrade" process shouldn't be able to read the > old pickle format data and rewrite that into whatever the new format > is. I don't think that Mailman is as complex a program as either > postfix or Exim, and I don't think the changes are going to be that > painful. > > Of course, I wasn't around for the 2.0.x to 2.1.x conversion, so > I can't speak for how this has worked in the past. > >> (The seemingly >> never-ending lack of Majordomo 2 was what moved us to Mailman from >> Majordomo.) > > What drove me to Mailman was not the lack of Majordomo2 per se, > but was that there were so many additional things I had to add to the > system to get it working the way I wanted, and adding Majorcool plus > MHonArc to our existing Majordomo installation was likely to be about > as painful as switching everything over to Mailman instead. > > Mailman is certainly not perfect, but I think it's a lot more > scalable and certainly more easily managed than Majordomo, and that's > good enough for me. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
