On 11/25/2010 10:35 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have never set up Apache to use a system with cgi-bin, it was
> always automated for me. I can go on with 'new' stuff; that is why I
> was looking for a RECENT tutorial (I am finding them for like
> FC3-5).
>
I usually find such howtos are filled with a lot of useless and/or
incorrect information. Though not a lot has changed since FC5 (or
even FC3) regarding mailman's setup.
Yes they vary a lot. I tried a vanilla setup on my notebook, and the
create list script ran. But on the server I want to run where I have to
use a virtual host, there I am getting problems. I do have the
beginnings of linking things in.
The documentation included in the mailman package is fairly good.
And
if it leaves you stuck at a particular point, you can always search
for help with just that step or ask in the mailman-users list. (I
used to help out there a little, but one of the upstream developers
does a much better job of that task, so I haven't bothered to be very
active there in a long time. It's a generally friendly and helpful
place.)
Start by reading /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT. That
documents fairly well what steps you need to take to complete the
things that the rpm isn't quite able to automate for you.
This is helping. It helped me link the mailman.conf into amahi's
1003-mailman.conf apache files that now have started things, but I still
have to figure out the virtual host part right.
I'm a fan of postfix for the mail server, and mailman integrates
nicely with it. It can also integrate nicely with exim, though I've
never used exim by choice. Integrting it with sendmail is a bit more
work, but is possible. (By integrating, I mostly mean that mailman
can help automate the task of adding the needed aliases for new
lists.)
We used
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squ...
as our template for
http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System.
I have been running this on F10 (Amahi 4) for a year and now finally
moving it to F12 while we are finishing up our F14 port. Sheesh, I am
trying to run a little faster. But this setup has been working really
well for me. Thing is, we DON'T use the alias file, but all the
addresses are in a mySQL database. I will have to see how the
integration will go. Do I have mailman work with the alias file or have
it update the users sql table?