[Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015 :Mailman Client written in Javascript

[Abhilash Raj]

Hi Abhishek,

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 07:43 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was able to setup the mailman (Core, postorius, mailman.client,
> postorius_standalone)  by downloading them individually. Also with
> superuser, i can create domains. I have some questions:
> 
> 1) When i try to create list i get : HTTP Error 500: A server error
> occurred. Please contact the administrator

Try to find out what error is raised, check the logs in
var/logs/mailman.log . This error is very common due to the absence to
postmap command which mailman uses to create postfix maps. Either you
can set your mta to nullmta by adding the following in yout mailman.cfg
in var/etc/

[mta]
incoming: mailman.mta.null.NullMTA
outgoing: mailman.mta.null.NullMTA


or simply install postfix.

> 2) Though i am able to create domain using postorius ui, i am unable to do
> it by directly using the mailman.client. The development.rst doc says
> "python manage.py mmclient" can be used for the purpose. But after doing
> this no client object is created.  I also tried tried the way given
> mailmanclient/docs/using.rst
> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman.client/trunk/view/head:/src/mailmanclient/docs/using.rst>
>  with
> port 8001. This creates client , but that object is unable to talk to the
> rest server.

Just saying that "object is unable to talk to the rest server" doesn't
help. Make a habit of mentioning the complete traceback from logs when
you have errors. Do you get a `Mailman API Error`? If yes, check that
your mailman is running. If not, start it using `mailman start` command.

> 3) Is what i installed using lp:mailman the mailman core..? and this handles
> the rest requests..?

Yes!

> 4) Is there more documentation online other than that available in the doc
> folders of the projects..? I searched online but didn't get any developer
> type documentation.

No, the same documentation is available on readthedocs in a html format.

> 5) If i make any changes in the code, what's the best way to make them
> reflected in the mailman..? run "python setup.py develop" for that
> project..?

You don't need to do anything if you ran `python setup.py develop` to
set it up first time. If you used `python setup.py install` then you
need to run that again to reflect your changes.

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Abhilash Raj <raj.abhilash1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 02:01 PM, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Using the viurtualenv, i was able to complete the setup guide. But i am
>>> required to login at http://localhost:8000/ and there is no option to
>>> register. So i logged in using Mozilla persona. But even after that i am
>>> not getting any options to create domains and list as described here
>>
>> Are you using mailman-bundler? It does not work right now! For
>> development you'd have to download and setup each projects (Core,
>> postorius, mailman.client, postorius_standalone) from launchpad.
>>
>> Also, only superuser is allowed to create domains. You can create one in
>> django (postorius_standalone) using the command:
>>
>>    $ python manage.py createsuperuser
>>
>> Then you have to login as a superuser using the login credentials given
>> or through persona.
>>
>> --
>> thanks,
>> Abhilash Raj
>>
>>
> 
> 

-- 
thanks,
Abhilash Raj

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