The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Phil Stracchino <address@concealed>]

On 10/5/22 01:44, Jonathan Aquilina (via en Mailing List) wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am thinking of potentially setting up sympa to manage my mailing lists 
> for mailshots etc. I have one question how secure is sympa vs mailmain 
> as a mailing list host?

Honestly ...  that's the wrong question.  The relative security of the 
list management software in use is probably secondary in either case to 
the security of the host.  It is far more likely that either list 
service will be compromised via some attack against the host than by an 
attack against the service itself.  Neither Sympa nor Mailman has 
currently known vulnerabilities as long as they are running on a 
properly secured host system.

If you're making a decision between Sympa and Mailman based on security, 
you're probably making your decision for the wrong reasons.  Look at 
which fits better into your environment and which is the easier for you 
to install, configure, and maintain.

Personally I ran Mailman 2 for a long time, but abandoned it for Sympa 
during the long, long period during which Mailman 2 was no longer being 
actively maintained, but Mailman 3 wasn't ready for release yet and 
migration documentation was unclear.


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