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).
Mailman2 was a dream, simple to install and just worked. MM3 has some nice features (eg using a SQL database) but is a pig -- far more than it should be. I know other sysadmins who gave up and went with different list managers; if I was starting again I would do likewise.
Help here has been good & responsive (thank you) but several times I was told that because I had not followed the virtualenv instructions help was limited.
Oh: I wanted several domains, friends who also have mail list servers all seem to handle several domains so 'typical' is not what I see.
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