mailman3 admin from mailman2 & File location questions
Question1 We use help users with list settings, so we would log into mailman2 with the master password. So what is the best way to duplicate this for mailman3. I assume I can just use the admin account and share that password with my other admins. But I see the domain owners, but is that working? I added someone as a domain owner, and they do not see private email lists and it looks like that can not edit any list settings? There was a post that this had not yet been implemented? Any other options?
Question2 Where are all the emails/archives stored? are they in /opt/mailman/...., or are they in the database?
For mailman2 we had mailman located on a large volume to handle archives, just trying to see if that is the same for mailman3 or if all the data is now in the database (which will be external for our installation)?
On 11/3/21 1:38 PM, bob B wrote:
Question1 We use help users with list settings, so we would log into mailman2 with the master password. So what is the best way to duplicate this for mailman3. I assume I can just use the admin account and share that password with my other admins. But I see the domain owners, but is that working? I added someone as a domain owner, and they do not see private email lists and it looks like that can not edit any list settings? There was a post that this had not yet been implemented? Any other options?
Domain owners should be able to manage lists in their domains, but currently they can't.
You can go to the Django admin interface and give any user superuser status, and then they will be 'admins'. You don't have to share passwords.
Question2 Where are all the emails/archives stored? are they in /opt/mailman/...., or are they in the database?
It depends on the archiver. For the prototype archiver they are in the archives/prototype/ directory in Mailman's var directory. For HyperKitty they are in the database.
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Sorry i did some more digging and for question 2 I found:
"By default, HyperKitty stores the email attachments in the database. If you would rather have them stored on the filesystem, you can set the HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER configuration value to a directory."
So unless I am missing something, I no longer need a big drive on my mailman3 install (Like i did on mailman2) cause everything is being stored in the database
On 11/4/21 6:58 AM, bob B wrote:
Sorry i did some more digging and for question 2 I found:
"By default, HyperKitty stores the email attachments in the database. If you would rather have them stored on the filesystem, you can set the HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER configuration value to a directory."
That only refers to attachments, not to the message headers and body.
So unless I am missing something, I no longer need a big drive on my mailman3 install (Like i did on mailman2) cause everything is being stored in the database
That is correct for HyperKitty by default, but not for the prototype archiver. See https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message/...
Of course the prototype archiver can be disabled and maybe is in your case.
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