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.
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