Mailman mail list nntp support

Question

Using mailing list provide by mailman was a little bit ... user unfriendly so I try to find how can I get some nntp endpoint from a mailman mailing list in two different cases :

• Case #1 : I got access to the mailman server configuration and can install some package to get a NNTP endpoint.

• Case #2 : I don't have any access to the mailman configuration nor server. But I can install / deploy on an other server packages / script to provide some kind of "sync" with a nntp endpoint.

I make some research on Google and it seems there's dozen of script / package that post to a mailman mailing list from nntp but don't find and mailman to nntp solutions.

Answer 1

One software package that provides an NNTP interface to mailing lists is http://trainedmonkey.com/projects/colobus/ which integrates with ezmlm rather than mailman, but I imagine conversion between storage formats should not be too difficult and there may be migration scripts already available. Colobus is used on nntp.perl.org for the Perl community mailing lists.

Answer 2

Mailman 2.0 has support for bi-directional NNTP gateway.

Check Mail-to-News and News-to-Mail gateway services option in administration WEB interface.

Answer 3

As an aside, or alternate, try gmane.io:

In January 2020, the server hosting the e-mail to news service, still operated by Ingebrigtsen, needed to be moved following the sale of a company Ingebrigtsen had co-founded.[8] Due to failure of the current owners of gmane.org to update a DNS entry — resulting in the unavailability of news.gmane.org — Ingebrigtsen obtained a replacement domain, gmane.io, and migrated the 15,000 mailing lists to a new server at the new address using a combination of automation, volunteer labor, and manual processes.[9] It is currently available only by newsreader as the website formerly operated by Yomura has not been recreated.

The NNTP server would be news.gmane.io and there's a gmane.discuss newsgroup. I didn't know about mailman NNTP until now, but gmane goes back some time.

(The new domain and lack of a website might've been accidentally on-purpose, as some folks would from time to time make threats -- but that's speculation.)