Terry, Mark and of course everybody else on the list, I didn't want to sound rude or being not thankful about what the mailman developers or ist community have done. I really like mailman. I am trying to get mailman up and running for the past two weeks and I am doing this in my sparetime for a hockey club for free.
All I meantis that it is very difficult to know what to do when everybody and every tutorial is offering a different solution. I understand that it is possible to install mailman in any choosen location, but some basics should be the same, at least when we all talk about the same mail client. So when running mailman together with qmail/vpopmail the way is either to use is -with-cgi-gid=mailman or -with-cgi-gid=VCHKPW. Do you knwo what I am trying to say? When Jordi offered me his help and I really appreciate any help!!! He/she wrote -with-cgi-gid=apache. In this case it is absolutely no problem to understand that my Apache user/group is "nobody" so I would have to change it to -with-cgi-gid=nobody. So there I see differences on every system, but I am missing a main road to success. Why is that not possible? So I hope everybody got my point now. Thank you very much to all of you offering support for free!!! Alex > >Bryan, what do you say about this? I believe qmail/vpopmail is a >pretty wide spreaded configuration by now and I don't understand why >the creators of mailman can't just say, that's the way to go, fullstop! > >Best regards, > >Alex Hi again, While it would be excellent to have everyone using the same, it's just never going to happen. Yes, qmail/vpopmail is relatively popular, but not even close to the extent of sendmail usage & also not close to Postfix either. Exim is also a popular choice, as are Courier-MTA & Communigate Pro along with qmail & a pile of others, so it's best to allow Mailman the extent of running with any mail server you care to run, depending on your configuration. The other problem developers also face is that people running a particular OS & MTA, such as your choice of qmail is that there are a myriad of configuration options for that, using different paths for directories & so on, such as the option of running Mailman in any directory so chosen, so I believe Mailman developers have don the best they can with what they have to work with. -- Bye for now, Terry Allen ___________________________________________________________________ hEARd Postal Address: hEARd, 26B Glenning Rd, Glenning Valley, NSW 2261, Australia Internet - WWW: http://heard.com.au http://itavservices.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: Australia - 02 4388 1400 / International - + 61 2 43881400 Mobile: Australia - 04 28881400 / International - 61 4 28881400 ----------------------------------------------- Non profit promotion for new music - since 1994 ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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/