[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#997060: Bring back mailing list support to Debian

[Alain Knaff]

Hi,

On 10/24/21 12:27 AM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
[...]
> mailman removal is the decision of the mailman maintainer, Thijs, due to
> the fact it relies on python2 which got removed from Debian.
> 
> Regarding mailman3, I did the nginx integration, Jonas the Apache2 one,
> from upstream recommendations. Looking from the config, I'd try the URL
> without the trailing slash: https://myserver/mailman3

Thanks for your reply.

Indeed, in the meantime I found the following bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996105

... and followed their advice to remove that trailing slash from
/etc/mailman3/apache2.conf, and that made it work.

> 
> I don't know if the proxy permissions are really required.

Without it, I get a permission error (even with slash removed from
apache2.conf)

> 
> Apart from that, mailman3 is in Debian since Buster, so more than three
> years, and while it indeed carried out its lot of bugs, it's quite
> usable.

There are indeed still a number of issues present which make integration
cumbersome:

- obscure "lmtp" interface to submit mails, makes it difficult to have
domains that contain both mailing lists and direct mail users. The old
way of calling /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman to submit was easier to
integrate. Why not ship an lmtp client that can be called the same way
as the old /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman ?

- the non-standard uwsgi proxy for the web interface, rather than plain
CGI which just works, and is easy to debug.

> 
> Regards,
> --
> Pierre-Elliott Bécue
> 

Regards,

Alain