[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman

[Joe Newman]

I don't have my own server.  I pay for space through webmasters.com.  Is
there a way to still use it with that?

Joe "Frost" Newman
Out Of Breath Productions
www.outofbreath.com
AIM: Frost350
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at nc.rr.com>
To: "Joe Newman" <frost at bboy.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman


> Definitely install it on your Linux box.  If you read the dependencies you
> will see that the box needs to have a Mail-server running on it (Sendmail
or
> Postfix work just fine).  You also need Apache (the web-server) configured
> and running - the standard configuration should work just fine.
>
> You will need Python version 2.2.x running on the box for the latest
version
> of Mailman to work (version 2.1.1.).  You should also make sure that your
> Linux server is defined properly in DNS and that it's host name resolves
> properly on the box as well as locally (use the hostname command to figure
> out what it "thinks" it's host name is).
>
> With all that in place and working (which is not a lot since most of that
is
> standard), then you can download and install Mailman from source very
> easily.  Down load Mailman from Sourceforge.  It will come as a big file
> named something like: mailman_2.1.1.tar.gz
> Expand the file using the following command:  tar -xzf
mailman_2.1.1.tar.gz
> This will create a directory named "mailman": cd mailman
> Now read the file "INSTALL"  it will tell you to create a user on your
> system named "mailman" and a group on the system named "mailman", and then
> it will give you two commands to run:
>   ./configure
>   make install
>
> You may need to add some switches to ./configure if you are running some
odd
> variants of a Mail-server or web-server.  For specific instructions on
> various Mail-servers read the README files that are in the same directory
as
> the INSTALL file.
>
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Newman" <frost at bboy.com>
> To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:50 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman
>
>
> Ok, I've looked around in the FAQ and archives and I'm still not sure how
to
> install Mailman.  I have Windows XP but I saw it wasn't recommended to
> install on Windows.  The server my site uses is Linux.  How do I install
on
> that server and do I still need Python for that?
>
> Joe "Frost" Newman
> Out Of Breath Productions
> www.outofbreath.com
> AIM: Frost350
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users mailing list
> Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> Searchable Archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
>
> This message was sent to: jonc at nc.rr.com
> Unsubscribe or change your options at
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com
>
>