Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-15 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:12:07 -0400 "Sean McBride" wrote: > > Hi again, > > Another comment and question if I may: > > 1) The mailman-install.pdf has text like this: > > > Add this to the bottom of the `$prefix/Mailman/mm cfg.py' file: > MTA =

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/15/2016 12:12 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > Hi again, > > Another comment and question if I may: > > 1) The mailman-install.pdf has text like this: > > > Add this to the bottom of the ‘$prefix/Mailman/mm cfg.py’ file: > MTA = ’Postfix’ > > > It would be nice to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-15 Thread Sean McBride
Hi again, Another comment and question if I may: 1) The mailman-install.pdf has text like this: Add this to the bottom of the ‘$prefix/Mailman/mm cfg.py’ file: MTA = ’Postfix’ It would be nice to be able to copy-paste that exactly, but alas the pdf use smart

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sean McBride writes: > I'm not aware of the problems you refer to. "launchctl load -w" > works fine in my experience, though the details of exactly how it > works have changed between releases. Like the man page says: "In > previous versions, this option would modify the configuration >

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 02:53 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:16:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: > >> You also need to register as a user and let us know your registered user >> name. > > Yes, sorry, I read too fast. Done that too now. :) And you now should have permission. -- Mark

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:16:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: >I've done that now in the online versions (refresh the page if it isn't >the 'April 14' version. The update will be in the tarball of the next >(2.1.22) release. Nice! >That section has a highlighted note at the top saying: "Much of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 12:57 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:07:29 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: > >>> - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a >> standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix >> versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5."

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Steve Burling
On 14 Apr 2016, at 12:03, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: If you're working with Mailman 2, dubious. There may never be another release of Mailman 2 (but Mark is authoritative). And Mac OS X has been somewhat unkind to us (Apple's Mailman has been a long-term source of support requests to which we

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:07:29 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: >> - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a >standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix >versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5." I'm assuming that version >number is just

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:03:18 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull said: >If you're working with Mailman 2, dubious. There may never be another >release of Mailman 2 (but Mark is authoritative). And Mac OS X has >been somewhat unkind to us (Apple's Mailman has been a long-term >source of support requests

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 06:32 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm setting up mailman for the first time, and have a few questions/comments: > > - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a > standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix > versions

[Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sean McBride writes: > I'm assuming that version number is just out-of-date? Does mailman > work with modern postfix? Yes and yes. Beware the Debian mailman-to-postfix.py script, however. (There's a FAQ about it at http://wiki.list.org/FAQ somewhere.) > - I'm doing this on OS X, and

[Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
Hi all, I'm setting up mailman for the first time, and have a few questions/comments: - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5." I'm assuming that