On 2022-01-24 15:33, nate wrote:
Hello mailman users out there -
I have been a casual user of mailman for 21 years now I think it is. Most of my lists were super small (my only current lists have no more than 8 members each),
Hello just wanted to give one last update, and I am leaving this list after, I appreciate everyone's feedback.
The solution I finished deploying was I built a new Devuan 3.x VM on my colo VM server, and installed apache/postfix/mailman there, I copied what was left over of my /var/lib/mailman from my main system to the new system. I updated alias/virtual files on the new system to go to mailman, and updated the alias files on my external/main server to route email for the lists to this internal server.
Then I configured apache ProxyPass rules to route the cgis to the internal system, then I sent a test email, and another..and another.. nothing was being processed.
Mailman 2.x has just worked so I was confused. I thought maybe there was a daemon but I didn't see one running. Fast forward a bit and I saw Mailman 2.x installed a systemd unit file (I guess a package Devuan forgot to "fix"), no systemd on the system though. I managed to find the old sysv init script for mailman on my original system copied it over, and bam the test emails went through.
So peace in my world again haha. I could of finished this a week ago just got lazy.
Perhaps in my next upgrade cycle Mailman 3 in Devuan/Debian will be more bullet/idiot proof for another try. In the meantime, for my lists that average 1 message/month and a grand total of maybe 6 people subscribed this is more than adequate.
thanks again for the help have a good weekend.
nate