Larry,
Thank you for your helpful reply. Although not enthusiastic about it I have decided to follow your advice as well as Mark's and just install a new version of Mailman. I was trying to save myself sometime but considering the explanations both of you have provided I believe it is better to just face the extra work and avoid Apple's version. Now that I now I can simply install it on a new directory that will not conflict with the existing version things should be much simpler. Thank you again for your reply and help with this issue. Best regards, Joe On 4/18/11 4:28 AM, "Larry Stone" <lston...@stonejongleux.com> wrote: > On 4/18/11 1:53 AM, JRC Groups at joemailgro...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> I have read the page and also contacted Larry Stone. His instructions are >> for installation on OS X client and not OS X Server. I haven't found >> instructions on how to remove the Mailman version bundled by Apple with OS X >> Server. One of my concerns is that Apple's version and the downloaded >> version would both have several (if not all) files installed as default in >> the same location and this could lead to potential conflicts. > > With some more thought than my quick private reply to you last night, I > don't think this is an issue. IIRC, you choose where to install Mailman and > I believe it is self-contained in that directory. My latest instructions > (for Snow Leopard) suggest /usr/local/mailman but previous versions > suggested /Applications/mailman (and if you wanted to, you could call it > something like > /usr/local/my_private_copy_of_mailman_which_does_not_conflict_with_Apples > which is inelegant but would work and I'm pretty sure really does not > conflict :-) ). So long as the directory you pick does not exist, then you > will not be at risk of a conflict. You would, of course, have to change that > name throughout my instructions but that is trivial. > > The instructions do call for modifying some configuration files of other > software (Postfix and Apache) but those files are intended to be > user-modifiable and Apple provided updates should not be overriding your > mofications. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
