Daniel Pocock just wrote a blog post about how to setup mailman for virtual hosting. Well, it strikes me that mailman is a bad solution, for many reasons. First, it imposes you to use @lists.example.com lists instead of @example.com. I’m not sure if that is mandatory, but at least I’ve seen only mailman setups done this way. At least, it is how mostly everyone does the setup. I think that’s really ugly. Any mailbox should be fine, IMO.
What I found particularly lame about Mailman, is that these issues (plus the ones which Daniel listed) have been known for YEARS, though nobody came up with a patch to fix it. And it’s really not hard. Why do I know it? Well, because I’ve been using MLMMJ for years without such troubles. The current situation where everyone is with mailman is really LAME.
Not only MLMMJ is better because it is easier to install and supports virtual hosting out of the box, but also it is written in C and is much faster than Mailman. MLMMJ has been used in high traffic lists like for SUSE and Gentoo. The fact that some major sites decided to do the switch isn’t a proof that MLMMJ is perfect, but is a good indication that it at least works well without too much trouble.
Also, with mailman, you have to use the subject lines to control your list subscriptions and send command to it. No need to do that with MLMMJ, because everything is controled with the mailbox extension. For example, mylist+subscribe@example.com can be used to subscribe (instead of mylist-requests@lists.example.com, then fill-in the subject line with mailman).
So, if you don’t like some of the (bad) limitations of Mailman, would like to test something faster, and easier to setup, have a try with MLMMJ (see mlmmj.org for more details, and see the README.Debian inside my package).