On 09/14/2018 03:07 AM, Paul Arenson wrote:
Recently I asked my server administrator (large educational organization with many accounts for various sub groups).
I pointed out that it might be a while before MM3 is on CPanel. I showed him the documentation at http://docs.list.org/en/latest/migration.html to show how to go from Mailman 2 to 3 manually. He said he might be willing to give it a whirl.
He said he might be willing to make our group (GALE) a test case (we have about 60 people in two not-so-active lists). He asked:
"I'd need to look into this a bit more to see what's possible. One issue is whether CPanel updates would overwrite any changes made. If you have any more details about it, let me know. We could try it out on the GALE site if you wanted, but I couldn't guarantee that it would work."
The initial step is to install a working Mailman 3 on the server. This can be done in a couple of ways. See <http://docs.list.org/en/latest/prodsetup.html> for more detail.
It is not clear to me because I don't know much at all about cPanel whether MM 3 can be installed outside of cPanel on the same server or not, and if it has to be installed within cPanel, how that would be affected by cPanel updates if it can even be done at all.
I take it he can migrate from MM2 following the directions above in the URL. I guess what he means is, once it becomes available in Channel, would it mean more work to get it to work and to update than if we waited for the CPanel version to debut. Since I don't understand much of the install stuff, he would presumably be doing it.
The info at <http://docs.list.org/en/latest/migration.html> covers migration of Mailman 2.1 lists to Mailman 3. The big hurdle is the installation of Mailman 3 which is not covered in that doc.
As far as how to migrate from a 'custom' install to an eventual cPanel Mailman 3, that would depend at least in part on the database manager (SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL) used. I.e. if your custom install used SQLite and cPanel's used only MySQL, you would have a database migration issue.
Some of these questions would be better directed to cPanel itself. Only they can tell you what their Mailman 3 timeline might be or if they even have one.
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