Hey all,
I've been self-hosting an ancient mailman 2.x service for many years for
the residents' association where I live, and it's time to move on. Apart
from anything else, I dread to think what security holes may still exist.
But we're experiencing issues with SPF failures causing bounces and
eventual unsubscribes, which I'm not even sure mailman 3.x handles any
better than 2.x.
So I'm looking for recommendations on a way forward, and figured this list
is full of knowledgeable sorts who probably have experience with various
options. I should mention that these lists are used for discussion, not
just for broadcasting one-way announcements.
mailman 3.x seems to be substantially more complex than 2.x, but I don't
see that as an issue, because I've decided to move away from self-hosting
since I just don't have time to become a mailman expert. Moving to SaaS
would also increase the service's bus factor above 1, and provide some
added security through isolation from other services currently on the same
machine.
I'm loathe to move to Google Groups since some of our residents are very
anti-Google, and I expect their support will be awful if ever needed. It's
also a closed source dead end. I'd prefer to pick a SaaS offering based on
Free/Open Source, to support continued development of that. I'm inclined
to go with a mailman 3 SaaS offering, and the following two both look very
promising because they're decently priced, can migrate my existing 2.x
lists, and can host on London servers:
https://www.mailmanhost.com/
https://www.mailmanlists.net/
There's also
https://mailman3.com/ which can host in the EU, but I'm not
sure if they offer migration.
Does anyone have any experience with any of these, or have recommendations
of good alternatives to mailman (preferably with options to migrate
existing mailman lists)?
Thanks a lot!
Adam