Hi. Migrated to Ubuntu 26.04 and the Debian mailman packages as they now seem to be on the same version of Mailman as I came from previously which means a bit less effort for maintain the system. Also migrated to Postfix as we can do the configuration of the whole system in around 10 Postconf commands which is easy to script. Hoping everything working ok. Thanks. Andrew.
Hopefully fix the archiver. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: 08 September 2026 10:26 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgson.io> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Testing with new OS upgrade Hi. Migrated to Ubuntu 26.04 and the Debian mailman packages as they now seem to be on the same version of Mailman as I came from previously which means a bit less effort for maintain the system. Also migrated to Postfix as we can do the configuration of the whole system in around 10 Postconf commands which is easy to script. Hoping everything working ok. Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Migrated to Ubuntu 26.04 and the Debian mailman packages as they now seem to be on the same version of Mailman as I came from previously which means a bit less effort for maintain the system. Also migrated to Postfix as we can do the configuration of the whole system in around 10 Postconf commands which is easy to script. Hoping everything working ok.
Yes so far. I moved to Postfix from Sendmail a number of years ago and never regretted it. It still hosts one of my email addresses. My understanding is that Mailman 2 is no longer supported, and Mailman 3 is current. On the same account, I'm using Rspamd for spam filtering and Dovecot for allowing IMAP access. Crowdsec takes care of blocking a variety of attacks from the world's criminal fraudsters etc. I'm still running Bind 9 for the DNS authoritative name server. DNSSec, DANE, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all set up. Obviously, it's entirely a matter of configuration file editing, hence no accessibility issues whatsoever.
Hi. The Postconf command is idempotent so it can be safely added to a script which may get ran several times. I don't run my own email anymore, its handled by M365 and this list sends out emails via that service as a smarthost which works surprisingly well. We've come up with a small issue in the Debian packages, the URL for Hyperkitty has been set to /hyperkitty which breaks most of the links in search engines and the like. On my stock Mailman installation I built from source the URL for Hyperkitty was archives/. Mailman2 runs on Python2 and we haven't been able to run that on a Debian based distro now since I think around 2022. CPanel hosts still use that version of Mailman using their own Python packages so its still very popular. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Jason J.G. White via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: 08 September 2026 13:44 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason J.G. White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Testing with new OS upgrade Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Migrated to Ubuntu 26.04 and the Debian mailman packages as they now seem to be on the same version of Mailman as I came from previously which means a bit less effort for maintain the system. Also migrated to Postfix as we can do the configuration of the whole system in around 10 Postconf commands which is easy to script. Hoping everything working ok.
Yes so far. I moved to Postfix from Sendmail a number of years ago and never regretted it. It still hosts one of my email addresses. My understanding is that Mailman 2 is no longer supported, and Mailman 3 is current. On the same account, I'm using Rspamd for spam filtering and Dovecot for allowing IMAP access. Crowdsec takes care of blocking a variety of attacks from the world's criminal fraudsters etc. I'm still running Bind 9 for the DNS authoritative name server. DNSSec, DANE, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all set up. Obviously, it's entirely a matter of configuration file editing, hence no accessibility issues whatsoever. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
The Postconf command is idempotent so it can be safely added to a script which may get ran several times. I don't run my own email anymore, its handled by M365 and this list sends out emails via that service as a smarthost which works surprisingly well.
I might consider that approach in the future for mine. The difference is: if I send a message via Microsoft 365, and the Microsoft 365 server is on a block list, the messages bounces, but I can resend it and a different Microsoft 365 server (not on the block list) will likely deliver it. I've been in this scenario. As I only have one self-hosted server, I can't do the same, and I don't want to pay for multiple servers unless there are other good reasons.
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