On Jan 9, 2026, at 15:35, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, this is a first test of the upgraded server and software. If it works, > I'll follow-up with more details.
Sorry for the delay, but it took a lot of work to upgraded everything. Summary: I should have started with a fresh server and a fresh install of the mail list software. The server was running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, which is nearly 6 years old. There is a built-in process for upgrading it, first to the next LTS (22.04), and finally to the current LTS (24.04). That took around a day, and only involved going down a few dead-ends. Next came the upgrade of the list software from GNU Mailman, which runs on Python 2.x, to GNU Mailman3, which runs on Python 3.x. Importing the lists, settings, and subscribers was easy enough, but it has a completely different architecture under the hood, and some of the hacks I had added over the years had to be re-written. For example, I archive all messages to Elasticsearch, which makes searching the archives very fast. But there was no clear way to do this in the new software. Enter Perplexity, Claude, and ChatGPT. I asked them all how to do this, and they gave surprisingly different answers. Some were correct. The problem seems to be that over the years, Mailman3 has evolved how it works internally, and these LLMs had a mix of docs from all the versions, and they had a hard time figuring out which doc was correct for my version. I eventually got most things working, but it seems that the DB is not getting updated yet. I'll tackle that next. Another issue is the hack I wrote to forward selected messages to the ProFoxTech list. Again, this required hacking around until I found the correct place to do it. I think it's working, but I checked after I sent the previous message, and I had a typo in a script, so the forwarding didn't happen. I hope this one works better. The subscription web interface has changed - it's now super-minimal. I'm not in love with it, but there are things I can do to make it nicer. But for now it's bare-bones. There's still one thing I don't have working: the link in the footer to the archive for the post. The problem is that Mailman3 doesn't expose the Message-ID to the footer creation code, so I need to find a way to hack that. -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://lists.leafe.com/postorius/lists/profox.leafe.com OT-free version of this list: https://lists.leafe.com/postorius/lists/profoxtech.leafe.com Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: (sorry, still working on this!) ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
