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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
