[okfn-help] Does anyone like Mailman?

Tue May 17 23:31:30 UTC 2011

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:35:47PM +0200, Carsten Senger wrote:
> Another alternative is sympa [1][2]. I choose it as a mailman replacement
> some years ago to get more features (mainly more options for mailinglists
> and more than two administrative users per list). 

Administrative users in Mailman are defined as "whomsoever knows the
administrative (or site) password, or has write-access to the Mailman
files".

> If the main problem is the layout of mailman pages we can also try to
> improve that with less work.
> Even so mailman does not offer any customization story, we can change
> mailman to provide a friendlier listinfo page [3], e.g. sorted into
> categories, and a nicer layout. This may require some manual work
> for new lists from time to time, but not too much.

There's an article I can dig-out, if there's interest, in how to
define a localized template for new lists, and for existing lists.

> A second option is to put a theming proxy ([4] or [5]) in front of mailman
> that wrap the mailman output into an okfn layout, and write a better  
> listing.

A the third option, could be to wait until the end of the summer,
when, with a bit of luck, Mailman 3 will be ready for deployment.

(disclaimer, see my contribs on wiki.list.org, and mail.python.org)

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