configuring_mailman_for_ubuntu
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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. | 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' | It's my belief the Ubuntu install files leave you with the wrong file ownerships, so if you haven' | ||
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| The Mailman configuration files are in / | The Mailman configuration files are in / | ||
| - | MTA=None # No MTA processing req'd for Ubuntu/ | ||
| - | IMAGE_LOGOS = '/ | ||
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| - | DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = ' | ||
| - | DEFAULT_URL_HOST = ' | ||
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| I'm not sure if you need this line - can someone tell me? | I'm not sure if you need this line - can someone tell me? | ||
| - | DEB_LISTMASTER = ' | ||
| - | Apache 2 config files are in / | + | |
| - | ScriptAlias | + | 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 /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ | + | |
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| - | | + | AllowOverride None |
| - | </ | + | Options ExecCGI |
| - | Alias /pipermail/ / | + | Order allow, |
| - | < | + | Allow from all |
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| - | | + | Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks |
| - | </ | + | AllowOverride None |
| + | Order allow, | ||
| + | Allow from all | ||
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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. | 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/ / | + | |
| - | < | + | Alias /archives/ / |
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| - | | + | Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks |
| - | | + | AllowOverride None |
| - | | + | Order allow, |
| - | </ | + | Allow from all |
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| Now add a symlink to this file so Apache will use your new Mailman aliases the next time it starts: | Now add a symlink to this file so Apache will use your new Mailman aliases the next time it starts: | ||
| - | # cd / | + | |
| - | # ln -s / | + | # cd / |
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| All your configuration files are now set. Activate everything by restarting your services: | All your configuration files are now set. Activate everything by restarting your services: | ||
| - | # / | + | |
| - | # / | + | # / |
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| Create your first list | Create your first list | ||
| Mailman doesn' | Mailman doesn' | ||
| - | # newlist mailman | + | |
| + | # 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' | 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' | ||
| Adding MySQL aliases | 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: | 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 | + | mail destination |
| - | 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 ' | Your ' | ||
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| - | 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/ | ||
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| - | How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system | ||
| - | This is Ivar Abrahamsen' | ||
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