moving the Cyrus mailing lists?

[James Cassell]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> This morning, I updated a bunch of my Sieve to split out some mailing 
> list mail, and remembered that I've been meaning to float the idea of 
> moving Cyrus's development lists.
> 
> Right now, the Cyrus lists are hosted at lists.andrew.cmu.edu. My 
> understanding is that CMU is no longer involved with Cyrus development, 
> but we've got assurances that these lists will keep working 
> indefinitely. So: I don't think we *need* to do anything.
> 
> Fastmail is deeply committed to Cyrus IMAP, and we have a mailing list 
> product (Topicbox) that I think is really good, with great search 
> (powered by Cyrus + Xapian), a great web UI for both public archives 
> and composing mail, and it still does all the things you'd expect from 
> mailing lists: accepts mail via SMTP, has a moderation queue, and so on.
> 
> You can see an example open source project hosted on Topicbox here: 
> https://illumos.topicbox.com/ <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>
> 
> So, consider this an offer. I'll set up a gratis Topicbox organization 
> for hosting the Cyrus lists and we'll import past mail from the lists 
> into the organization and, if we can get the subscriber lists, transfer 
> subscribers. For me, the benefits are having an easier-to-search 
> archive and living without fear that the list might go away. Obviously, 
> I'm also a Fastmail employee, and I'm happy to show off Topicbox, too.
> 
> I'll wait a while to hear general interest in the idea before doing 
> anything else.
> 

-1 for a straight migration, but only because I really hate when things break. (...as Fastmail has been prone to do for its legacy users.) Is there a way to have Topicbox mirror the list, and allow folks to try it out for a while?

V/r,
James Cassell

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."