This morning, I updated a bunch of my Sieve to split out some mailing list 
mail, and remembered that I've been meaning to float the idea of moving Cyrus's 
development lists.

Right now, the Cyrus lists are hosted at lists.andrew.cmu.edu. My understanding 
is that CMU is no longer involved with Cyrus development, but we've got 
assurances that these lists will keep working indefinitely. So: I don't think 
we *need* to do anything.

Fastmail is deeply committed to Cyrus IMAP, and we have a mailing list product 
(Topicbox) that I think is really good, with great search (powered by Cyrus + 
Xapian), a great web UI for both public archives and composing mail, and it 
still does all the things you'd expect from mailing lists: accepts mail via 
SMTP, has a moderation queue, and so on.

You can see an example open source project hosted on Topicbox here: 
https://illumos.topicbox.com/ <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>

So, consider this an offer. I'll set up a gratis Topicbox organization for 
hosting the Cyrus lists and we'll import past mail from the lists into the 
organization and, if we can get the subscriber lists, transfer subscribers. For 
me, the benefits are having an easier-to-search archive and living without fear 
that the list might go away. Obviously, I'm also a Fastmail employee, and I'm 
happy to show off Topicbox, too.

I'll wait a while to hear general interest in the idea before doing anything 
else.

-- 
Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
CTO, Fastmail

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