# Discourse vs Mailman 3 comparison

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 31, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailman-3-comparison/159446 "2020-07-31T17:57:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-vs-mailman-3-comparison/159446/1 "2020-07-31T17:57:33Z")

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I’ve been looking into moving from Mailman 2 to either Discourse or Mailman 3.

The main difference, from my perspective, seems to be that Discourse is a primarily forum but can act like a mailing list, whereas Mailman 3 is primarily a mailing list but has a web interface. I really like the Discourse web interface and app, but wonder whether behind the scenes Mailman is somehow better at handling email.

But I’ve not yet come across any direct comparisons - are you aware of any comparison articles, blog posts setting out peoples’ experiences of each, etc?

Thank you.

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