[Mailman-Users] Contemplating new installation

[Mark Sapiro]

Jon Loose wrote:
>
>First off, I've read that there are some unique issues with qmail/mailman.  Does this make installation significantly harder than with a postfix system (it was as much as I could do to get the postfix/mailman system going - but I'm willing to persevere!)  What are the main issues?  Also, is Plesk likely to foul up the installation if it is used post the mailman install?


I can't answer your qmail/Plesk questions. I have no experience with
either.


>Second, my previous install of mailman was 2.1.x running under /usr/local/mailman.  I note that the fedora installation already seems to have mailman files distributed around the filesystem.  Is there a standard installation now as part of fedora, and am I better to use this or stick with a fresh installation into /usr/local/mailman?


RedHat has done this in order to make the installation Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliant. So far, this is just RedHat's
package. Which way you go I think should be decided on your preference
for install from source vs. install from package.

That said, if you need help from this list, we are going to be more
familiar with the source install.


>One final related issue:  this system has a greater need for security than the last one.  Is it simple to administer the web side of mailman using https so that user login is ecrypted?  Is there much needed for apache to be able to do this?


See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.027.htp>.

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