Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sajan Parikh writes: sendmail is still widely used, and if I were you, I'd just stick with what works unless you have you a particular need that sendmail wasn't filling. +1 with caveat: Exim and Postfix both have recipes for working with Mailman 3. It seems likely to me that it won't

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:32:50PM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: On 3/26/2014 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'd be inclined to chose Postfix over Exim simply because Postfix is more popular, and new things (e.g. Mailman 3) tend to be implemented first for Postfix. FWIW, I found postfix to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 27, 2014, at 05:26 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Exim and Postfix both have recipes for working with Mailman 3. It seems likely to me that it won't be hard to get Mailman 3 and Sendmail to work and play well together -- but nobody has done it yet. It's certainly the intent of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 27. März 2014 09:22:02 -0400 Barry Warsaw ba...@list.org wrote: On Mar 27, 2014, at 05:26 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Exim and Postfix both have recipes for working with Mailman 3. It seems likely to me that it won't be hard to get Mailman 3 and Sendmail to work and play well

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Gary Algier
On 03/27/14 04:26, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Sajan Parikh writes: sendmail is still widely used, and if I were you, I'd just stick with what works unless you have you a particular need that sendmail wasn't filling. +1 with caveat: Exim and Postfix both have recipes for working with

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/27/2014 2:48 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: I don't know if it's down to popularity or not, but I notice far more questions on this list concerning Postfix than I do exim. I suspect it's due to installed base- my very unscientific survey says that there are far more sendmail and postfix sites

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: On 03/26/2014 02:19 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote: We are currently running an old mailman instance and am planning to bring up the newest version of mailman and migrate to it. Current system uses sendmail. Since I now have a chance to change things,

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Bruce Harrison
Thanks to all who replied. Since I've used sendmail and have limited experience with it, I decided to go with that. Less variables in the mix! :) Anyway, proceeded with the install and got to make install, which failed with Permission denied for the mkdir commands. I'm running from a

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 03/27/2014 02:40 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote: Anyway, proceeded with the install and got to make install, which failed with Permission denied for the mkdir commands. I'm running from a non-root userid who has a membership in the mailman group. The directory /usr/local/mailman has rws

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Gary Algier writes: On 03/27/14 04:26, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Exim and Postfix both have recipes for working with Mailman 3. It seems likely to me that it won't be hard to get Mailman 3 and Sendmail to work and play well together -- but nobody has done it yet. I have it

[Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-26 Thread Bruce Harrison
We are currently running an old mailman instance and am planning to bring up the newest version of mailman and migrate to it. Current system uses sendmail. Since I now have a chance to change things, what is the best mail server to run on my mailman box? It will be talking to an exchange

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-26 Thread Sajan Parikh
It seems the 3 most popular MTAs are sendmail, Exim, and Postfix. All do the job well if you're running just a standard install of mailman without much fuss. sendmail is still widely used, and if I were you, I'd just stick with what works unless you have you a particular need that sendmail

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 03/26/2014 02:19 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote: We are currently running an old mailman instance and am planning to bring up the newest version of mailman and migrate to it. Current system uses sendmail. Since I now have a chance to change things, what is the best mail server to run on my

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-26 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/26/2014 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'd be inclined to chose Postfix over Exim simply because Postfix is more popular, and new things (e.g. Mailman 3) tend to be implemented first for Postfix. FWIW, I found postfix to be generally easier to deal with than the others. And the config files