On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 00:57, Marc Perkel wrote: > Often the programmers and the development team overlook things in upgrading > because they don't have the same experience as the end user. I want to point out > such a case to you so you can fix 2.1. > > As a 2.0.11 user I did not need the list "mailman" and didn't have one. Thus > when I upgraded it mostly worked. And it took a lot of work to figure out what I > missed. > > Perhaps the install/upgrade should create this list or at least there should be > some sort of error or better documentation. Just wanted to give you a heads up > on this to improve this fine product. >
It might be a good idea to have mailman create the list, except where such an alias already exists... In any case the INSTALL file clearly instructs users to create the "mailman" mailing list: - Create a "site-wide" mailing list. This is the one that password reminders will appear to come from. Usually this should be the "mailman" mailing list, but if you need to change this, be sure to change the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable in mm_cfg.py (see below). % bin/newlist mailman Follow the prompts, and see the README file for more information. - You should then subscribe yourself to the mailman list. These instructions are unfortunately not mentioned directly in the UPGRADE file. Would having the above section repeated in the UPGRADE file have been enough in your situation? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org