mailman/README



    1 
    2 README for mailman
    3 
    4 
    5 PRE-INSTALL
    6 
    7   Execute the pre-install script to add a new mailman user/group
    8 
    9 
   10 POST-INSTALL
   11 
   12   Mailman required the creation of a list on the server called 'mailman'.
   13   You should create it manually to avoid this message:
   14   'Site list is missing: mailman'
   15   Follow NOTES section in this README file for more information.
   16 
   17 
   18 NOTES
   19 
   20   Configure options:
   21 
   22     $ less /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py
   23     $ sudo vim /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py
   24 
   25   Configure aliases for Postfix MTA:
   26   
   27     $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
   28     $ sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf
   29   
   30     [...]
   31     alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases, ...
   32     [...]
   33   
   34     $ sudo newaliases
   35 
   36   To create a new list:
   37 
   38     $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist <list_name>
   39 
   40   To check perimissions:
   41 
   42     $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -v
   43 
   44   Maybe after create your first list you need to setup some directories/files:
   45 
   46     $ sudo chown mailman:mailman /etc/mailman/aliases*
   47     $ sudo chmod 660 /etc/mailman/aliases.db
   48 
   49   To configure httpd settings (without vhosts) append this to your httpd.conf:
   50 
   51     [...]
   52     ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
   53     <Directory "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/">
   54       AllowOverride None
   55       Options ExecCGI
   56       Order allow,deny
   57       Allow from all
   58     </Directory>
   59 
   60     Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
   61     <Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public">
   62       Options +FollowSymLinks
   63       Order allow,deny
   64       Allow from all
   65     </Directory>
   66 
   67     # Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
   68     # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).
   69     RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
   70     [...]
   71 
   72 
   73   IMPORTANT: If archives/private is not o+x, then the owner of archives/private
   74   must be the web server user whatever that is - i.e. the web server user must be
   75   able to search in archives/private.
   76 
   77   $ ls -ld /var/lib/mailman/archives/p*
   78   drwxrws--x 6 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
   79   drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/public
   80 
   81   The owner (root) is not important. the group is Mailman's group and may or may
   82   not be 'mailman' (e.g. on a debian/ubuntu package install, it is 'list')
   83 
   84   For more information:
   85   http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node9.html