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configuring_mailman_for_ubuntu [2007/01/24 16:43]
adam
configuring_mailman_for_ubuntu [2016/11/25 22:38]
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-===== Configuring [[http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/|Mailman]] for Ubuntu ===== 
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-Taken from [[http://freemars.org/howto/mailman.html]] 
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-Draft - Started 17 December 2005 
-Released to the unsuspecting world - 21 December 2005 
-Latest minor revision - 24 August 2006 at 01:30 PM 
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-Creative Commons License 
-This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 
-Software selected 
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-Install 
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-There is only one package you'll need to add - mailman. Use Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get to add it to your machine. 
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-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 * 
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-Of course I'm using example.com for this HOWTO. Substitute your own domain name. 
-Mailman configuration files 
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-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: 
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-   MTA=None # No MTA processing req'd for Ubuntu/virtual/postfix-to-mailman.py 
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-   IMAGE_LOGOS = '/mmimages/' 
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-   DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com' 
-   DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'example.com' 
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-I'm not sure if you need this line - can someone tell me? 
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-   DEB_LISTMASTER = 'postmaster@example.com' 
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-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 
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-   ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ 
-   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ 
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-   <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> 
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-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. 
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-   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> 
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-Now add a symlink to this file so Apache will use your new Mailman aliases the next time it starts: 
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-   # cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled 
-   # ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/mailman.conf mailman.conf 
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-All your configuration files are now set. Activate everything by restarting your services: 
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-   # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart 
-   # /etc/init.d/postfix reload 
-   # /etc/init.d/mailman start 
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-Create your first list 
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-Mailman doesn't have anything to do until there is at least one list for it to act on, so let's make one: 
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-   # newlist mailman 
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-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 
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-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: 
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-   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 
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-Your 'mailman' list should be operational. 
  
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