The majority of lochac.sca.org mailing lists have now been migrated to Mailman Version 3, with the remainder expected to be done over the month of May. The migration introduces several minor changes to the behaviour of lists, documented below.
For all list members
- Masonry has configured Mailman3 to process messages once every ten minutes, so messages posted to the list may take up to ten minutes to be sent to list members.
- List archives are updated nightly (Australian time). Consequently, messages posted to a list may not appear in the archives until the following day.
- Mailman3 no longer sends out automatic password reminders at the beginning of each month. List members may instead update settings for all their lists through a single user account at https://mailman.lochac.sca.org, or otherwise e-mail to listname-request@lochac.sca.org. See Migration to Mailman3 for further details.
For webwrights
- The home page for the list listname is now https://mailman.lochac.sca.org/postorius/lists/listname.lochac.sca.org.
- Once Mailman Version 2 has been retired, Masonry will redirect former Mailman2 URLs to the equivalent Mailman3 URLs.
For list administrators
- Mailman3 allows for a somewhat shorter list description than Mailman2 did. Where list descriptions exceeded the length permitted by Mailman3, Masonry has shortened them and sent the original text to the list administrator.
- Importation of list archives from Mailman2 to Mailman3 is imperfect due to limitations in the file format used to store messages in Mailman2. A small number of archived messages may have been rejected or garbled. Should you require an accurate record of what was posted to the Mailman2 list, Masonry can provide the original archive in ‘MBOX’ format.
- By default, Mailman3 will silently discard messages sent from addresses that are not subscribed to the list. You can instead have them sent for moderation by changing the settings under Settings -> Message Acceptance.
- Footers imported from Mailman2 may contain garbage URLs due to changes in the web interface from Mailman2 to Mailman3. To change the list’s message footer, visit Templates, click “New Template”, then choose “The footer for a regular (non-digest) message” beside Name.
- Some mail clients, including Gmail and Roundcube, do not recognise non-English letters produced by Mailman’s “Convert HTML to plaintext” option. Messages converted to plaintext may appear garbled in such clients. This is not an issue for HTML messages and Masonry has switched off conversion to plaintext for most lists.