[Mailman-Users] run Mailman with FTP/HTTP access only?

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:18, Markus Kachel wrote:
> Hello Kai,
> 
> On Monday, September 15, 2003, You wrote to subject: [Mailman-Users] run Mailman with FTP/HTTP access only?
> 
> > cool ... but what about configuring as much as necessary on a local machine
> > and uploading it via FTP? would that work?
> 
> Don't think so. The mail system muß be configured to and that cannot be done
> without telnet or ssh access to the server. Without configuring the mail
> transport agent no mail will get to mailman to be resent to all members of
> the list.
> So you should ask your webspace provider if he installs mailman and sets up
> a list for you.
> 
> Bye
> Markus

For all practical purposes, Markus is absolutely right.  However if you
had a real hankering for pain, and your system allowed you to setup some
aliases for personal use, plus you had personal web-pages that allowed
you run personal CGI's, then you could get it to run.

But why bother?  You could get the same thing done with much less
trouble by simply hosting your own box and setting Mailman up the way
that God and Barry intended (as the system administrator).

Good Luck.