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Is there a good way to migrate from a Mailman list to a web forum?

Asked 2009-03-05T21:47:26.810
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I have a Mailman managed list with years of history that I want to migrate into a web-based forum. Things it would be nice to do:

  • Keep the mailing list going for those who are used to and prefer it to a web interface, but have it integrate with the web-forum activity.

  • Take the web-based forum posts, and send them out to the mailing list.

I have run sites based on phpBB, Drupal, Simple Machines, etc., and am able to do a little bit of coding if that was what was required to integrate some package into Mailman, or replace it entirely. But I'm unaware of what is available, commercial, or open-source, that could accomplish this. I am also open to replacing Mailman, if the candidate package can perform its functions reasonably well and integrate well into its own forum.

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Well, based on what you've said (first, that you're able to do a bit of coding and second that FUDForum would work for you except for the issue of maintaining list membership, have you considered that:

The obvious solution would be to declare one of these master (probably FUDForum, since it looks as if it holds a proper superset of the Mailman info) and have a little script/cron job that copied changes from the master to the slave.

A passing note -- neither of these systems appears very secure (actually, they both look leaky as all get out) and combining them may well reduce the collective security even further. If you are doing anything even remotely confidential you should rethink your goals, and in any case you should take appropriate steps to protect your system from attack.

answered 2009-03-13T05:37:24.660

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