[BlueOnyx:04154] Re: Couple of questions...

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Darrell,

> Michael, how hard would it be to just hijack all of the Majordomo stuff
> inside BX and recode it with Mailman stuff?

It's unfortunately not that easy. Mailman and Majordomo use different methods 
and shell commands to setup and manage lists. So the better approach for us 
developers is to make a copy of base-majordomo, name it base-mailman and then 
adapt it with all the changes required to make it work with Mailman.

That way - once the new module is released - there will be no compatability 
problems as both Mailman and Majordomo could co-exist without conflicts. 

The integration of Mailman also requires an updated base-email module (for a 
modified sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf that's Mailman ready!). That is trivial.

The really tough part is: We need to modify CMU as well. Because we certainly 
want CMU to be able to export and import Mailman mailing lists as well.

So it'll be a ton of work.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber