All lochac.sca.org mailing lists have now been migrated to Mailman Version 3. Some lists no longer in use have been retired. The web interface for all mailing lists is now at https://mailman.lochac.sca.org.
The most common questions about the transition concern passwords for lists. In Mailman2, list members had a separate password for every list, and every list had a single administrator password shared by all administrators of the list. However, these passwords are no longer valid in Mailman3.
Mailman3 does not require any password to subscribe to a list, send and receive messages, or unsubscribe. List members can subscribe or unsubscribe using the list’s home page at https://mailman.lochac.sca.org, or by sending a message to listname-join@lochac.sca.org or listname-leave@lochac.sca.org where ‘listname’ is the name of the list.
List administrators, however, must sign up for a new account at https://mailman.lochac.sca.org to be able to do any list administration. Even if you had a list administrator password in Mailman2, you need to sign up for Mailman3 because the Mailman2 passwords are no longer valid.
- Choose ‘Sign Up’ in the top-right corner.
- For ‘E-mail’, enter the e-mail address of the list administrator.
- Choose a username, remembering that this name must be unique across the whole Kingdom. If signing up on behalf of an office, consider using the name of the office, since the account will be passed on to future office-holders.
- Choose a password.
The system should send a message to the e-mail address that you nominated, asking you to confirm the account. Once the account is confirmed, you should be able to login and perform list administration tasks.
Ordinary list subscribers can also create accounts, which may be necessary if you want to configure the way you receive messages or to view private list archives. Unlike Mailman2, the same username and password controls access to all of the lists to which you are subscribed.