> I really don't think RFTM is rude -- it's reality. > If more people did it there'd definitely be less general > confusion and that's, in fact, what the docs are for > -- issues such as this.
Yah, the trick these days is figuring out which manual. With mailman, we have mailman itself, python, sendmail (or whatever), Apache (or whatever), several operating system variants (with their own file tree & permission schemes) & shells. What is TFM for mailman? Is it the admin web page, list manager page, the READMEs, or something completely different? I've got Mac OS X 10.1 (with its pre-installed sendmail) mailman 2.1 After the first pass fumbling about, I re-installed python & mailman cleanly, then the next day logged into the mailman account and did a newlist to create one for testing. That seemed to go OK. Then I added a user (different from list owner), checked that by having it list the members, checked the config for the list to see that it looked reasonable, then sent a message from that user to the list... and it didn't get to either the admin nor to the list member, nor did it bounce back as undeliverable. One complication is that we've got another mail server at the site (also running sendmail & a POP3), and another web server (I think running Apache, but didn't set that one up, so am not sure), but I'd like to configure all these parts together on another system for managing the lists (getting them on one box is one purpose of the exercise). I don't see how the web pages get transformed from the templates into something usable. Does the list creation do this? (Hmmm, will have to muck about to look at those scripts to see if I can find the ones involved.) Where do they get placed... or how do I control where they get placed in the file hierarchy? "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." --- quantum physics text John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
