Will end of support for mbox create problems for mailman

[JamesOakley]

IIRC, Mailman uses mbox for its archives.

The release notes for 11.30 say:

cPanel & WHM 11.30 does not support mbox on Red Hat 6 or CentOS 6 servers.
Warning: In the forthcoming cPanel & WHM 11.32, the mbox format will not be supported on any operating system.

What will be the implications of this for Mailman on 11.32?

 

[cPanelTristan]

I do confirm that Mailman has archives in mbox format per an 11.30.0.25 machine I checked:

[email protected] [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives/private]# ls -lah
total 32K
drwxrws--x 8 mailman mailman 4.0K May 30 16:13 ./
drwxrwsr-x 4 mailman mailman 4.0K May 26 11:59 ../
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 30 16:13 cpacct_testing.foo/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 30 16:13 cpacct_testing.foo.mbox/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 30 16:13 testing_testing.foo/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 30 16:13 testing_testing.foo.mbox/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 26 11:59 mailman/
drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 26 11:59 mailman.mbox/

I cannot answer your question at this point without further research, but I can confirm that mbox files do exist in the Mailman archives.

 

[cPanelNick]

mailman stores its data independently of cPanel so this will continue to work in the future.

We actually moved away from mbox in 2005, and discontinued support for it in 2008:

http://www.cpanel.net/2005/11/cpanel-moves-from-mbox-to-maildir.html

We have been keeping it on life support up until now.