The usual situation

Posted Jan 15, 2026 4:11 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: The usual situation by pabs
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

Yep. I run a few mailing lists on Mailman 2. That's unmaintained now in favour of Mailman 3, but I don't like Mailman 3. It's way more complicated and I don't want to invest the time needed to migrate my lists and check that everything's OK. Also, I run the Sendmail MTA (for legacy reasons...) and the Mailman 3 documentation states: "The core Mailman developers generally do not use Sendmail, so experience is limited. Any and all contributions are welcome! There is one such contribution on GitHub and another in comments at this issue."

Not too reassuring.

So for now, I install Mailman 2.x from source. But it requires Python 2.x and I'm dreading the day Debian drops that. 🙁

The usual situation

Posted Jan 15, 2026 4:37 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

BTW, I started a project to archive all Mailman 2 mailing list archives, are your lists on the wiki page yet?

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Mailman2

The usual situation

Posted Jan 15, 2026 15:29 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Yes; my list info is added for one site, but not another. I will add the second site.