[MM3-users] Hyperkitty Recommended mySQL Database Setup & Archive Importing

Hi,

I've been working for quite a while to setup a production mailman3. Using the docker containers, I have been pretty successful getting it to work. Part of the challenge now is that there are a lot of issues when importing archives from mailman2. This of course is more common on lists that are over 10 years old.

          From what I've been reading, it seems like Mailman3 expects

the mysql database to use UTF8 encoding. It appears, by default, that when using the docker-mailman containers, that the character set is set to latin1. This may explain why there are lots of import errors, and maybe also why there are a lot of errors when threads are deleted in hyperkitty's UI.

          Is it the case that UTF8 is the preferred character set? I

also saw some threads indicating that maybe utf8mb4 is more preferred. I'd like to try to change the character_set on the database, if that is advisable.

          Also, is Hyperkitty 1.3.4 officially released? I see that the

list.org instance is using it, but the latest announce I've seen is for 1.3.3.

          Thanks.

• Matt Alberti