On Oct 27, 2021, at 4:51 PM, Shawn Heisey <mailman@elyograg.org> wrote:
On 10/26/2021 11:43 AM, Michael Heseltine wrote:
after upgrading an older server to Ubuntu 20.04, I tried to first upgrade my old mailman 2 installation to mailman 3. I've been on it for three weeks now, but unable to get anything working. I have long forgone the idea of upgrading and thus purged everything from mailman2 on my machine, and installed and removed mailman3 several times to no avail.
I just ran into a lot of trouble myself getting the Ubuntu packages working. And I got the same advice you did from this mailing list -- don't try to install it that way.
My first attempt at installing it without using packages was the virtualenv method. After beating my head against that for a few hours and not making any progress at all, I gave up.
I now have the docker install fully functional, and imported my list configurations from data I saved from an ancient mailman2 install. It was giving me grief too when I first installed it, but I managed to work through each of the problems. One of the issues was a basic networking problem -- mailman in the container wasn't able to talk to Postfix on the host. Rebooting the host cleared that up. Side note: There are no details in the docker instructions about how to upgrade the containers to newer versions. Easy upgrades was a big reason why I wanted to use the Ubuntu packages. Upgrading other packages has always been pretty straightforward.
The instructions are basically in the issue description, pending move to a documentation page:
https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/issues/293If you are upgrading the latest 0.4.x release from 0.3.x, you also want to look at
https://asynchronous.in/docker-mailman/news/#upgrading-to-040-releaseI'm using Apache, not nginx. It was already installed, and I know more about configuring it than nginx. It wasn't too difficult to set up Apache to proxy over to uwsgi running in the web container. I had to work out the config myself ... the docker instructions only have a config example for nginx.
If you can send a PR for the config you set up for Apache in Github, or just an issue, I can include it in the docs :-)
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)