To get mailman running you need to (this is from memory): * Lightly edit /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py * Configure apache to point to mailman * Configure postfix or other mailer to send and receive email from your box (be careful not to be an open relay for spam) * Setup the mailman list * Setup the mailing lists that you want through the web interface
Then you need to go to http://MAILMAN_URL/admin to get a mailman page. Only publicly advertised lists will appear. It sounds like you're almost there. If I remember correctly, the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is created by /etc/hostname plus /etc/resolv.conf. You need both setup properly so that when mailman asks python what box you are on it gets a hostname plus domain name (set /etc/hostname with a text editor and /etc/resolv.conf with DHCP or static). Though I think you can also give it what it wants by setting something in mm_cfg.py (DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST?). HTH, Richard On Thursday 18 June 2009 15:41:05 Scott Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Kyle Waters<[email protected]> wrote: > > Scott Jones wrote: > >> If I didn't create the 'mailman' list could that be keeping it from > >> loading? What other things have to be in place for Mailman to start > >> up? > >> > >> > > > > > > > > I'm going to say yes that may be the reason, why didn't you create the > > mailman list?. Is mailmanctl running? Did you install this with a > > package manager? Which distro? Which MTA are you using? > > When I attempted creation of the mailman list, I got an error about my > FQDN, that none was found. Yes mailmanctl is running. I installed this > with apt-get. Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. MTA is exim4. > > Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
