On 9/19/20 9:50 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> I'm probably going to regret getting involved in this conversation, but ...
> 
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 08:48, Stephen J. Turnbull <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure that at least for now I[1] can configure a system to
>> run Mailman 2 so that none of the above matters (eg, have the web
>> server and MTA speak TLS so that Mailman doesn't have to), but I'm not
>> confident that will last for very long.
>>
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's pure FUD.  I'm not the expert on mailman that most
> of you are, but I can think of no reason for mailman itself to ever speak
> HTTP or SMTP, and therefore no reason for it to need to do TLS.  I'd be
> very surprised at anyone running a mailman setup where there wasn't a web
> server and an MTA sitting between mailman and the rest of the Internet.  Am
> I wrong about that?


I think that was exactly Steve's point.


> Does mailman even include its own web server?  I didn't think it did.


No, it doesn't. It does however do SMTP to an MTA that isn't necessarily
on localhost, so TLS can be an issue there.

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