On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > 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. >
-1 for a straight migration, but only because I really hate when things break. (...as Fastmail has been prone to do for its legacy users.) Is there a way to have Topicbox mirror the list, and allow folks to try it out for a while? V/r, James Cassell "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
