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-===== Configuring [[http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/|Mailman]] for Ubuntu =====
-Taken from [[http://freemars.org/howto/mailman.html]]
-Draft - Started 17 December 2005
-Released to the unsuspecting world - 21 December 2005
-Latest minor revision - 24 August 2006 at 01:30 PM
-Creative Commons License
-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
-Software selected
-Install
-There is only one package you'll need to add - mailman. Use Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get to add it to your machine.
-It's my belief the Ubuntu install files leave you with the wrong file ownerships, so if you haven't already opened a terminal window do so and become root
-$ sudo -s (and enter your password)
-Mailman includes a handy script to make check your permissions. It's in /usr/sbin/ so it should be on root's path.
-# check-perms
-- and note the massive problems. To fix permissions,
-# check-perms -f
-A bunch of changes scroll by, but did it get them all?
-# check-perms -f
-Nope; still errors. In fact, you need to
-# cd /var/lib/mailman
-# chown -R list:list *
-Of course I'm using example.com for this HOWTO. Substitute your own domain name.
-Mailman configuration files
-The Mailman configuration files are in /etc/mailman. Use your favorite text editor to edit /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py. You'll want to check/edit/add the following lines:
-MTA=None # No MTA processing req'd for Ubuntu/virtual/postfix-to-mailman.py
-IMAGE_LOGOS = '/mmimages/'
-DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com'
-DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'example.com'
-I'm not sure if you need this line - can someone tell me?
-DEB_LISTMASTER = 'postmaster@example.com'
-Apache 2 config files are in /etc/apache2. The Apache authors think you should put anything that looks like a module in mods-available and mods-enabled. Go ahead and create a new file: /etc/apache2/mods-available/mailman.conf
-ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
-ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
-<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
-   AllowOverride None
-   Options ExecCGI
-   Order allow,deny
-   Allow from all
-</Directory>
-Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
-<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
-   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
-   AllowOverride None
-   Order allow,deny
-   Allow from all
-</Directory>
-Optional - pipermail is one of those directory names which hangs around for historical reasons but makes little sense to users. You might want to add a more sensible-sounding alias for the mailing list archives.
-Alias /archives/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
-<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
-   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
-   AllowOverride None
-   Order allow,deny
-   Allow from all
-</Directory>
-Now add a symlink to this file so Apache will use your new Mailman aliases the next time it starts:
-# cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
-# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/mailman.conf mailman.conf
-All your configuration files are now set. Activate everything by restarting your services:
-# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
-# /etc/init.d/postfix reload
-# /etc/init.d/mailman start
-Create your first list
-Mailman doesn't have anything to do until there is at least one list for it to act on, so let's make one:
-# newlist mailman
-You'll be asked for an administrator email address - give it yours - and a password. If all goes well you should immediately get an email welcoming you to your new list. The email will have a URL where you can go and experiment with the web-based mailman configuration. There's just one thing that won't work -- emails sent to the list will not work. On to the final section of this howto.
-Adding MySQL aliases
-If you've installed phpmyadmin as Ivar suggests you can use a GUI interface, otherwise you'll edit your MySQL database through the command line. Insert the following entries into the aliases table of the maildb database:
-mail	destination
-mailman@example.com	mailman@lists.example.com
-mailman-admin@example.com	mailman-admin@lists.example.com
-mailman-bounces@example.com	mailman-bounces@lists.example.com
-mailman-confirm@example.com	mailman-confirm@lists.example.com
-mailman-join@example.com	mailman-join@lists.example.com
-mailman-leave@example.com	mailman-leave@lists.example.com
-mailman-owner@example.com	mailman-owner@lists.example.com
-mailman-request@example.com	mailman-request@lists.example.com
-mailman-subscribe@example.com	mailman-subscribe@lists.example.com
-mailman-unsubscribe@example.com	mailman-unsubscribe@lists.example.com
-Your 'mailman' list should be operational.
-    I can't recommend one of these books over the other. The Dent book has good reference material in Apendicies A and B. The Hildebrandt/Koetter book is almost twice as thick and includes many examples and code snippets. Take your pick.
-How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system
-    This is Ivar Abrahamsen's HOWTO for setting up a MySQL-based mail system for multiple domains and many users. If you don't need a setup as complex as his example, you won't need to do all the stuff I'm suggesting either.

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