How to upgrade Mailman and keep Let's Encrypt ?

[William Dudley]

Lowell,

Thanks for your reply.

I should have done more "pkg search" -- it turns out that certbot/acme are
also available
as a py38 package, so that solves the problem if I want to migrate to
mailman 3.

I just did some "research" on mlmmj, which initially looked promising,
until I realized
it hadn't had any work done on it since 2017!  DMARC has made mailing lists
challenging,
and mlmmj has had no work done to it to handle that challenge.  People are
using mlmmj,
from what I can see by googling, but also migrating from mlmmj to mailman
and others.

I have installed and played with Sympa, but it seems fiddly compared to
mailman.  It "works"
but I haven't put it in production.  I haven't experimented with mailman 3
at all.

Bill Dudley



On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:58 PM Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> William Dudley <wfdudley at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm running 11.4-RELEASE-p9, and obviously, it's time to move to 12.
> >
> > I'm running Mailman 2.1.34 which uses deprecated Python 27.
> >
> > I realized that when I move to FreeBSD 12, I will no longer have Python
> 27,
> > so Mailman 2 will no longer work.
>
> That's not actually true. Python2.7 is still present, and mailman2 still
> works for now. I don't know, pragmatically speaking, when that will
> cease to be the case.
>
> > When I do "pkg search mailman), I find the following:
> >
> > mailman-2.1.34                 Mailing list manager with user-friendly
> web
> > front-end
> > py38-mailman-3.3.1             GNU Mailing List Management System, Core
>
> According to my understanding, mailman3 is not currently a full
> replacement for mailman2.
>
> > As an experiment, on a spare machine, I tried:
> >
> > pkg install py38-mailman-3.3.1
> >
> > However, there is a conflict between py38 and py37, and so pkg wants to
> > uninstall:
> >
> > py37-acme-1.16.0,1             ACME protocol implementation in Python
> > py37-certbot-1.16.0,1          Let's Encrypt client
>
> Both of those can be built with python3.8 (anything from 3.6 on, I
> think, based on their makefiles), so py38 is an option if you don't mind
> having to compile those from ports. Also, mailman3 (again, according to
> its makefile) can be built with any python from 3.5 on.
>
> > That won't do, as I host several websites on the same machine with the
> > mailman installation and they all want to have https (obviously).
> >
> > How do I solve this?
>
> A common answer is to move from mailman to another list manager. mlmmj
> seems to be popular for this purpose. Another common answer is to
> continue to hang onto mailman2 in hopes that something else will emerge
> before you need to make the jump to another option.
>
> If you want to try mailman3 and stick with prebuilt packages, it might
> make sense to create a python38 jail. It would have to share some data
> access with the web servers, but that can be done safely.
>
> Good luck.
>