"Thomas" == Thomas Ward via Mailman-users <mailman-users@mailman3.org> writes:
Thomas> On 2026-04-08 10:28, alain williams wrote:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 11:07:42PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, the recommended installation documents at https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html are complete and straightforward for "typical" one-domain installations. No they are not. I struggled, part of the reason is that I am not imbued in the python mindset and the documentation is written assuming that background. So I used the Debian package and a lot of work was needed on top of that. There are still problems: it is a resource hog and parts crash - generating large numbers of incomprehensible emails (I have talked about here, no real help).
Thomas> The Debian package is inherently old and inefficient
I'm using it with Nginx, Postgresql and exim4; on sid it's at Mailman3 3.3.10 with postorious 1.3.13; it has been stable for me since the upgrade before last (before that, there was a memory leak somewhere). I did find configuring it initially a pain; the way Django works was (still is) a mystery to me; plus a couple of the upgrades have been rocky and broken things (which I expect when working with the unstable distribution)
The README in /usr/share/doc/mailman3/README.Debian was enough to get me going.
And sudo -u list /usr/bin/mailman <args>
gets you the CLI so you can do the things in the official docs.
Peter C