On 2025-06-02 20:19, Cathryn McGuire wrote:
We are Administrators of a small neighbourhood group with more than 20 years of
archives.
You'll have to talk to EMWD to see if your archives will be kept with
the migration. They have a completely custom web interface for archival.
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I'm going to re-state what Mark said here. To quote Mark Sapiro:
> As far as your EMWD migration from cPanel Mailman 2.1 to Mailman 3 is
conerned, I think you'll find little if any change as far as email
posting to the list and email from the list is concerned, but EMWD has
their own proprietary web UI for list management and archiving, so the
web UI at EMWD is quite different from that for this list.
THEREFORE...
We love the simple functionality of Mailman 2.
One post goes to the entire membership by email. Any reply arrives by email;
either immediately or as part of the 9:00 am Digest.
That part isn't going to change.
No websites or browsers or sign-ins.
Well, you manage your list SOMEHOW, probably with EMWD's web panel and
UI panel.
No threads or topics.
There's no "threads" like forums have, but discussions by topic at least
in mailman 2 and mailman 3 have still existed and probably still will
exist.
Simply emails back and forth.
Does Mailman 3 have the ability to function this way?
(Read my last statements)
Might someone invite us to temporarily join their group so we can see how
Mailman 3 operates from the point of view of members?\
EMWD uses their **own custom UI** for management and archiving. This
means that we can't give you any real guidance on EMWD and such for how
it relates to user management, etc. because the standard Mailman 3 UI
(Postorious) for that won't be what you use with EMWD. So we can't
really assist you to see how things will be from the view of "members of
the list" in that front.
For the vast majority of users and use cases though, if all they care
about is the email messages being sent to the list and received from the
list, nothing will change for users. It's the *management* components
and EMWD's custom UIs you'll have to work with though, not the standard
Postorious Mailman3 UI.
At my dayjob, we use mailing lists here on Mailman3, albeit with the
standard Postorious UI, but we have a separate management UI that we use
for managers to check who is a member, remove members, etc. that uses
the Mailman API and not Postorious, but the core management group
(myself and IT staff) use Postorious for our management tasks and to see
if Mailman is working and such. Additionally, we have 53 lists and well
over a thousand members on some of othe lists and it works well. The
vast majority of the members only care that the email functionality
works, and it does for them. (None of them use digest format mail
notifications, but that's because the lists tend to be more 'realtime'
for those members.) (And before you ask, those lists are not open)
If you have *more specific* questions beyond "do the same basics of
Mailman2 like digests, email handling, etc. still behave more or less
the same way" then you should ask those questions *specifically*.
If your specific questions revolve around the management interface, you
have to talk to EMWD. Same with message archives.
Thomas
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