[BALUG-Test] Mailman3 testing

[Michael Paoli]

Still far from even being completely set up,
let alone well tested, and
Mailman 2 --> Mailman 3 migrations.

But a bit further along, most notably:
https://lists.balug.org/mailman3/
So, at least some of the web stuff is working properly,
but much of it still has to be properly configured,
tested, etc.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:55 PM Michael Paoli
<michael.paoli@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Have some very preliminary Mailman version 3 testing started on
> the BALUG VM, notably for lists.balug.org
> General plan (at least shorter term) is to replace the existing
> soon to be unsupported Mailman 2 with Mailman 3.
>
> So, testing on Mailman3 - presently have one list set up:
> balug-test3@lists.balug.org
> Note that it might possibly wink in and out of existence,
> and/or get reloaded, etc., but general intent is for it
> to mostly persist and have continuity through testing,
> And around/after completion of Mailman 2 to Mailman 3
> migration, will probably fold it into existing
> balug-test@lists.balug.org list (which will then be Mailman 3).
>
> At the moment, so far (probably) just email interface,
> with other bits to come.
>
> So, subscribe, unsubscribe, etc.
> balug-test3-subscribe@lists.balug.org
> balug-test3-unsubscribe@lists.balug.org
> balug-test3-request@lists.balug.org
>
> Note due to some limitations in how the MTA is
> configured with anti-spam, it will generally
> filter/reject/drop messages with empty bodies (presumed to be spam),
> so, to work around that, don't have an empty body.
> E.g. -request address, to send a command of help,
> put it in the body, or if in the subject, include a body of:
> end
> so it makes it past the anti-spam and gets properly processed.
> The existing Mailman 2 configuration has these MTA anti-spam configuration
> limitations noted on the relevant web pages, and the relevant help text, etc.
> ... but I haven't yet done any such customization on Mailman3.