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Re: Any experiences with Sympa?

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 08:52:26AM -0400, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded my web server to Debian 11 "Bullseye" last night and it
> rather rudely removed Mailman, which I use to manage three mailing

[snip]
> 
> I re-installed Mailman 2 from source, but I don't think that's a viable
> long term option.  Has anyone had experience with Sympa?  I'm
> considering that as a replacement for my mailing lists.

I've hesitated to answer as I don't have experience from an administrator of
Sympa, but as an "uber" admin (I don't remember the Sympa term.  We're
talking circa 2002 2003) of mailing lists.  Maybe it was Master
Administrator.  I was hoping you would hear from more experienced voices.

Anyway, I could do anything to any mailing list on the server that a list
owner or admin could do to their own lists.  My impressions were that it was
HIGHLY configurable.  IIRC, there are 4 types of lists depending on who can
post and subscribe.  You can get notifications for a gazillion things,
again, iirc.  Multilingual, though that may not be a concern for you.  It
was for the org I volunteered for.

From where I was standing it seemed like a nice package.  I enjoyed the
experience of using it.

If you do go the Sympa route, I'd be interested in hearing your impressions,
both as list admin and as sysadmin.

Cheers,

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