diff --git a/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman3/mailman.cfg.j2 b/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman3/mailman.cfg.j2
index d01a11dc..0016322c 100644
--- a/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman3/mailman.cfg.j2
+++ b/roles/mailman3/templates/mailman3/mailman.cfg.j2
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ banner: Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell
 # Use IPython as the shell, which must be found on the system.  Valid values
 # are `no`, `yes`, and `debug` where the latter is equivalent to `yes` except
 # that any import errors will be displayed to stderr.
-use_ipython: no
+use_ipython: yes
 
 # Set this to allow for command line history if readline is available.  This
 # can be as simple as $var_dir/history.py to put the file in the var directory.