You probably have got 2.6 installed you just need to tell terminal to use 2.6, there should be a shell command inside the 2.6 folder that updates the terminal to use 2.6 otherwise you start python by referring directly to the "python" you need to use. Sorry I have no advise on mailman.
Thanks Vincent Davis On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Sandra Quiles <sandr...@silverica.com>wrote: > > Hello. I have followed the instructions of a post on Installing mailman on > OS X 10.4, and got to step 7 and hit this error. > > The hard- and software involved is: OS X 10.4.x, Python 2.3.5, Mailman > 2.1.5 (using this outdated version because I don't know how to upgrade > Python despite going to the Python site. It wasn't obvious to me which > Linux package was an upgrade, and the installation of MacPython 2.6.1 was > not recognized by Terminal). > > So. illegal name error. it list listname as 'mailman@<mycomputername>' > > that's in response to the 'bin/newlist mailman' command > > also, I purchased the Postfix Enabler, but have no clue what to do with the > software. > > Tips, advise, hand-holding welcomed. > > -- sandra > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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