I don't have my own server. I pay for space through webmasters.com. Is there a way to still use it with that?
Joe "Frost" Newman Out Of Breath Productions www.outofbreath.com AIM: Frost350 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman > Definitely install it on your Linux box. If you read the dependencies you > will see that the box needs to have a Mail-server running on it (Sendmail or > Postfix work just fine). You also need Apache (the web-server) configured > and running - the standard configuration should work just fine. > > You will need Python version 2.2.x running on the box for the latest version > of Mailman to work (version 2.1.1.). You should also make sure that your > Linux server is defined properly in DNS and that it's host name resolves > properly on the box as well as locally (use the hostname command to figure > out what it "thinks" it's host name is). > > With all that in place and working (which is not a lot since most of that is > standard), then you can download and install Mailman from source very > easily. Down load Mailman from Sourceforge. It will come as a big file > named something like: mailman_2.1.1.tar.gz > Expand the file using the following command: tar -xzf mailman_2.1.1.tar.gz > This will create a directory named "mailman": cd mailman > Now read the file "INSTALL" it will tell you to create a user on your > system named "mailman" and a group on the system named "mailman", and then > it will give you two commands to run: > ./configure > make install > > You may need to add some switches to ./configure if you are running some odd > variants of a Mail-server or web-server. For specific instructions on > various Mail-servers read the README files that are in the same directory as > the INSTALL file. > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:50 PM > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman > > > Ok, I've looked around in the FAQ and archives and I'm still not sure how to > install Mailman. I have Windows XP but I saw it wasn't recommended to > install on Windows. The server my site uses is Linux. How do I install on > that server and do I still need Python for that? > > Joe "Frost" Newman > Out Of Breath Productions > www.outofbreath.com > AIM: Frost350 > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
