[Mailman-Users] Mailman not responding, configuration error?

[Mark Sapiro]

Brad Knowles wrote:

>	We don't use version numbers with dashes in them, so this means 
>that you're using a package version from your OS vendor, or someone 
>who prepared a package version for your OS.

and Dr. Jones wrote:
>
>Not to disparage your comment about version numbers and dashes for 
>mailman, but....I ran dpkg -l mailman on my debian 3.0 system and get 
>the following:
>
>root at fyrenice:/etc/mailman# dpkg -l mailman
>Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
>uppercase=bad)
>||/ Name                   Version                Description
>+++-======================-======================-===========================================================
>ii  mailman                2.1.5-4                Powerful, web-based 
>mailing list manager
>
>Am I reading the output wrong? Help me understand what i read above, the 
>"2.1.5-4" part...

You are not reading the output wrong, but you are confirming what Brad
wrote. Namely that you are running a version of Mailman which was
packaged by Debian (or someone for Debian) as opposed to one installed
from source on your system.

Jim Tittsler has responded to some of your mm_cfg.py issues, but with
issues involving prepackaged versions, you might consider seeking help
from the provider of the package.

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