[TriLUG] Mailman Setup?

Ryan Wheaton ryan.wheaton at comcast.net
Mon Aug 18 17:05:53 EDT 2003


Man, that almost sounds too easy...  thanks for the quick howto.  i'll let 
y'all know how it goes.

At 04:56 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:29, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> > hey guys,
> >
> > Probably tomorrow I'm gonna dive head first into my first install of
> > Mailman (2.1) on a fresh install of RH 9.  I can't find too much
> > documentation on installation or setup of Mailman (haven't checked the
> > READMEs that come in the .gz yet) so I'm assuming that most everything is
> > in the READMEs.  Just wanted to ping the list and see if there's 
> anything I
> > should know before jumping in, or if anyone had any good links to some
> > docs.  I've googled, but can't find much.  I figure someone has something
> > to say since i'm positive that _someone_ here has installed it before :-)
> >
> > -r
>
>Hola Ryan!
>
>On Red Hat 9 after install via rpm you will need to do the following
>very necessary steps:
>
>Put the following in your /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file:
>MAILMAN_USER = 'mailman'
>MAILMAN_GROUP = 'mailman'
>
>Also you will need to put in your hosts real domain name:
>#DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'porky.devel.redhat.com'
>#DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'porky.devel.redhat.com'
>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.anncons.org'
>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.anncons.org'
>DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
> 
>
>Lord knows what the Mailman packager for RedHat was smoking the day he
>did this RPM...
>
>After that, you need to create your first mailing list named "mailman".
>
>Since you are using Red Hat 9, use the chkconfig utility (or you could
>use the Services gui that comes in the System Settings/Server Settings
>menu).
>
>chkconfig --list mailman
>mailman         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
>
>chkconfig --level 345 mailman on
># this will turn the mailman daemon on automatically when the server is
>booted.
>
>That covers a lot of the install on Red Hat 9.  If you run into problems
>let me know!
>
>Good luck - Jon Carnes
>
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