On 9/19/20 9:50 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: > I'm probably going to regret getting involved in this conversation, but ... > > On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 08:48, Stephen J. Turnbull < > turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure that at least for now I[1] can configure a system to >> run Mailman 2 so that none of the above matters (eg, have the web >> server and MTA speak TLS so that Mailman doesn't have to), but I'm not >> confident that will last for very long. >> > > I'm pretty sure that's pure FUD. I'm not the expert on mailman that most > of you are, but I can think of no reason for mailman itself to ever speak > HTTP or SMTP, and therefore no reason for it to need to do TLS. I'd be > very surprised at anyone running a mailman setup where there wasn't a web > server and an MTA sitting between mailman and the rest of the Internet. Am > I wrong about that?
I think that was exactly Steve's point. > Does mailman even include its own web server? I didn't think it did. No, it doesn't. It does however do SMTP to an MTA that isn't necessarily on localhost, so TLS can be an issue there. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
