Notes for the debian mailman package. ===================================== Getting started --------------- You can access the web interface of mailman on http:///cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo You can create new lists with the newlist command (you have to add the aliases it needs by hand to /etc/aliases or the corresponding database because mailman can not know about configuration of all MTA's, but newlist tells you about the alias it needs, but see the notes on qmail and postfix below). For users of exim: if you want to use the /etc/aliases file for mailman aliases, you'll need to specify a user=list line or something like that in the system_aliases director. gate-news is commented out in the default crontab, since most people will be less interested in gating news-to-mail and vice versa. This is asked by a low priority debconf question, so you can change it through debconf or by editing the crontab by hand. An example Apache configuration is included in /etc/mailman/apache.conf. It can be copied to or symlinked from e.g. the /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory. Apache + suexec --------------- Since suexec forbids execution of CGIs with gid < 50 and www-data (the default for mailman cgi) is 33, you should execute the cgi with a gid of 50-99 or 65534. It cannot be any other gid since mailman cgi check that gid < 100 or == 65534. Qmail ----- For those using qmail, please see the comments in /etc/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py and set it up according to those instructions. Additional information may be available in /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.QMAIL.gz Postfix ------- For those using postfix who are able to devote a full subdomain lists.example.com for use by Mailman, please see the comments in /etc/mailman/postfix-to-mailman.py . SpamAssassin ------------ As of Mailman 2.1-1, Mailman includes the SpamAssassin patch from Sourceforge.net. It is not enabled by default. If you want to enable the handler, adding GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin') at the bottom of your mm_cfg.py should enable it. You can read more documentation about how to configure SpamAssassin and Mailman together at http://www.daa.com.au/~james/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ The current version of this handler used in this package is released on 2003 May 6 by James Henstridge . -- Lionel Elie Mamane , dim, 27 aoĆ» 2006 19:08:42 +0200