README for mailman
PRE-INSTALL
Execute the pre-install script to add a new mailman user/group
POST-INSTALL
Mailman required the creation of a list on the server called 'mailman'.
You should create it manually to avoid this message:
'Site list is missing: mailman'
Follow NOTES section in this README file for more information.
NOTES
Configure options:
$ less /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py
$ sudo vim /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py
Configure aliases for Postfix MTA:
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
$ sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf
[...]
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases, ...
[...]
$ sudo newaliases
To create a new list:
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist <list_name>
To check perimissions:
$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -v
Maybe after create your first list you need to setup some directories/files:
$ sudo chown mailman:mailman /etc/mailman/aliases*
$ sudo chmod 660 /etc/mailman/aliases.db
To configure httpd settings (without vhosts) append this to your httpd.conf:
[...]
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public">
Options +FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
# name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).
RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
[...]
IMPORTANT: If archives/private is not o+x, then the owner of archives/private
must be the web server user whatever that is - i.e. the web server user must be
able to search in archives/private.
$ ls -ld /var/lib/mailman/archives/p*
drwxrws--x 6 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/public
The owner (root) is not important. the group is Mailman's group and may or may
not be 'mailman' (e.g. on a debian/ubuntu package install, it is 'list')
For more information:
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node9.html
