[BlueOnyx:07109] Re: Majordomo setup

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Michael Stauber
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:07108] Re: Majordomo setup
> 
> To be honest: I haven't planned any future work on the Majordomo
> implementation - unless I have to. I've started on the new Mailman
> integration
> a while ago, as that got kind of jump started with an awesome code
> contribution from a third party (thanks again, Leslie!). With all the
> things
> that recently went on, I've got a bit distracted there, but in a few weeks
> time BlueOnyx will switch to Mailman.
> 
> However: It is not yet clear what we'll do with existing boxes that still
> have
> Majordomo and if we can convert existing Majordomo lists to Mailman at
> runtime
> without using CMU, and/or if we can import not only the list settings, but
> also old messages. But I doubt that we'll be able to automatically "yum
> update" existing BlueOnyx boxes from Majordomo to Mailman seamlessly.
> 
> So at the worst we may end up with older installs that still run Majordomo
> until they get manually converted, or CMU migrated to a newer BlueOnyx
> (CentOS5 or CentOS6 based) that already runs Mailman instead of Majordomo.

When you get close to releasing the new Mailman integration/migration,
depending on the method you use to make the change, I would be interested to
know if it would be beneficial for those with existing Majordomo emailing
lists to "take down" their lists temporarily, get the new update and then
manually add their old subscribers list to Mailman.

I have one site on my server that uses Majordomo as a unilateral weekly
newsletter and that's it.  I don't care about old messages, don't even know
if there are any old messages, I would just like to see Mailman arrive and
us finally dump Majordomo.