diff --git a/bin/daily b/bin/daily
index 10d59c698..436e02458 100755
--- a/bin/daily
+++ b/bin/daily
@@ -59,3 +59,4 @@ $DTDIR/ietf/manage.py fetch_meeting_attendance --latest 2
 
 # Send reminders originating from the review app
 $DTDIR/ietf/bin/send-review-reminders
+
diff --git a/bin/mm_hourly b/bin/mm_hourly
index 4ae3f89bf..a79e362e1 100755
--- a/bin/mm_hourly
+++ b/bin/mm_hourly
@@ -6,10 +6,20 @@
 # $DTDIR/etc/cron.d/datatracker which should be symlinked from
 # /etc/cron.d/
 
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
+
+# Make sure we stop if something goes wrong:
+program=${0##*/}
+trap 'echo "$program($LINENO): Command failed with error code $? ([$$] $0 $*)"; exit 1' ERR
+
 DTDIR=/a/www/ietf-datatracker/web
 cd $DTDIR/
 
 # Set up the virtual environment
 source $DTDIR/env/bin/activate
 
-$DTDIR/ietf/manage.py import_mailman_listinfo
+logger -p user.info -t cron "Running $DTDIR/bin/mm_hourly"
+
+## XXX commented out pending rewrite -- mailman 2 python interface is not available under Python 3
+# $DTDIR/ietf/manage.py import_mailman_listinfo
diff --git a/ietf/virtualenv-manage.py b/ietf/virtualenv-manage.py
index 6cfe31e06..5d64ea570 100755
--- a/ietf/virtualenv-manage.py
+++ b/ietf/virtualenv-manage.py
@@ -1,26 +1,11 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright The IETF Trust 2016-2019, All Rights Reserved
+#!/a/www/ietf-datatracker/web/env/bin/python
+# Copyright The IETF Trust 2016-2020, All Rights Reserved
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
-
-import io
 import os
 import sys
 
 path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
-
-# change directory so patches etc. will be picked up as expected
-os.chdir(path)
-
-# Virtualenv support
-virtualenv_activation = os.path.join(path, "env", "bin", "activate_this.py")
-if os.path.exists(virtualenv_activation):
-    exec(compile(io.open(virtualenv_activation, "rb").read(), virtualenv_activation, 'exec'), dict(__file__=virtualenv_activation))
-else:
-    raise RuntimeError("Could not find the expected virtual python environment.")
-
 if not path in sys.path:
     sys.path.insert(0, path)