Hello Phil Stracchino. On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:37:08 -0400, you wrote: > .. Except for the part where it requires me to keep Python 2 installed > beyond its second, extended, we absolutely mean it this time, no more > extensions, declared EOL. > > It's not that I need anything Mailman 2 doesn't do. (Except run on > Python 3.) It's that I need Python 2 to be gone, dead and buried with a > fork stuck in it. I'm just waiting for Gentoo's Mailman 3 ebuild to be > flagged stable.
I am in no way a programmer - but as I understand it, Python 2 can live alongside Python 3 without any problems. The EOL declaration for Python 2 does NOT mean that Python 2 will stop working on the date the publishers announced. There will just be no improvements. And as long as there are no obvious security holes in Python 2, it is absolutely not necessary to retire it on any machine. I am administering some mailing lists which run on MM2 / cPanel, and they work. I have no access to that machine other than via cPanel, and it is in most cases sufficient. The question of Python 2 yes or no is up to the provider. If you absolutely want to get rid of Python 2, either use Mailman 3, or another mailing list manager. There are some other mailing list managers available - some for free, some for money. I can propose 2 of them here, you mey find others which may work for you. I am also operating some mailing lists privately, they don’t use Mailman. They use CommuniGate Pro in the "community edition" (free version with limited number of mail and other users, but unlimited number of mailing lists and mailing list subscribers). This runs on an older Mac mini in my basement - CGPro is also available for Windows, Linux, etc. - <https://communigate.com/> And there is Sympa, a mailing list manager created by people from French universities, see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympa> and <https://www.sympa.org/> Christian -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
