nate writes:
It's "just worked" over the years, no issues. I have been using Linux since 1996, not a newbie here.
If so, and you're familiar with Docker (obviously not the same thing, but maybe? ;-), you might find the containerized version provided by Abhilash (which is usually quite up to date) closer to a turnkey installation. I use the venv approach myself (more because developer than out of principle), so I'm not really familiar with the container distribution, but from traffic on the list I get the impression that most of the troubles have to do with networking in containers, rather than configuring Django and WSGI hosts.
I appreciate the detailed description of what you did and didn't find in the docs. The docs are weak on administration, we admit, and we we get some of those round tuits ....
Or is there a better MLM for simple use cases? I used Majordomo back in the 90s and was happy to get onto Mailman from that. Something similar to Mailman 2.1 in features/functionality.
It's been years since we had an answer to that question. Mark might have more to say, but the last time we were challenged on this, the rival was Sympa, and the conclusion I came to was that the use cases are different.
Depending on your Linux distro, and your attitude to risk, Python 2 plus Mailman 2 in a container, VM, or even a dedicated host in the DMZ or outside the firewall might be a reasonable solution.
Steve