Mailing list changes

Hello,

as some of you might know, the mailing list has been using the majordomo
mailing list manager for ages. Yes majordomo is old, but so are the computers
we're talking about on the list.

When moving the mail server to new hardware and a newer centos version today,
I wasn't able to get majordomo running. This came a bit unexpected. It seems
that the new perl version that comes with centos 7 broke parts of majordomo,
and I wasn't able to fix that within a hour or two, so I decided to move to a
new mailing list manager. I'm using mlmmj now, which involves a few changes as
listed below.

For one, mlmmj is new to me, so there might be configuration problems. If you
think something doesn't work as expected, please send me a private mail (off
list) so I can have a look at it. I will tweak the configuration over the next
few days/weeks.

Next, I had a special majordomo setup that allowed several users to post from
mail addresses not subscribed to the list. This is gone. If you post to the
list from an address not subscribed to the list, the mail is not accepted
(sent to the list).

Finally, the commands to subscribe/unsubscribe have changed:

To subscribe, send an email to cbm-hackers+subscribe@musoftware.de. It can
have any subject and/or content. Reply to the confirmation request and you're
on the list.

To unsubscribe, send an email to cbm-hackers+unsubscribe@musoftware.de. You
will need to confirm this one, too.

There's also a help function that lists several other features not available
with majordomo, like subscribing to a list digest. Send email to
cbm-hackers+help@musoftware.de to receive the help text.

I've manually moved all subscribers from majordomo to mlmmj, so there's no
need for immediate action for anybody on the list.

If you have questions or suggestions, please let me know.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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