[Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

Steve Burling srb at umich.edu
Thu Apr 14 17:04:00 EDT 2016


On 14 Apr 2016, at 12:03, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> If you're working with Mailman 2, dubious.  There may never be another
> release of Mailman 2 (but Mark is authoritative).  And Mac OS X has
> been somewhat unkind to us (Apple's Mailman has been a long-term
> source of support requests to which we mostly have to reply "uuuhhh
> ... install from source and we'll get back to you, Apple's Mailman is
> *weird*".

You know, I've heard this for years, but some time ago (a long time ago, 
now that I think of it :-) I diff'd the Apple-supplied Mailman with the 
appropriate source tarball, and they were essentially identical. I think 
the only thing that was different was the startup script.

-- Steve


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