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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:43:36 -0400
From:      Greg Veldman <freebsd@gregv.net>
To:        Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mail/mailman v3?
Message-ID:  <20200429024336.GT1068@aurora.gregv.net>
In-Reply-To: <eec989d7f0083b21b5f2d9f2438261fc@udns.ultimatedns.net>
References:  <8684b670-d968-7457-231e-720ab8449190@gmx.de> <eec989d7f0083b21b5f2d9f2438261fc@udns.ultimatedns.net>

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:02:14PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> It also wouldn't be that difficult to simply modify mailman(2)
> to adopt the py3.x language changes.

To simply make it work, perhaps not.  To make it work well and
be reliable... might be more difficult than you think.  A large
chunk of what a mail handler of any variety does is text
processing, and there are significant differences in that area
in Python2 vs Python3.  E.g. ASCII vs Unicode.  You'd likely
be opening a Pandora's box of corner cases and workarounds when
$STUPIDLY_FORMATTED_MAIL_MESSAGE_OF_THE_HOUR comes through.

The effort would probably be better spent enhancing Mailman3,
since that's the future of the project anyway.

Also, as someone that's been a Mailman site admin on installs
of various sizes for about the past 20 years, I'm sort of looking
forward to the promises of some of the little quirks of Mailman2
getting some love. ;-)

-- 
Greg Veldman
freebsd@gregv.net



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