Dudes, out of curiosity why can't mailman be totally installed and run without involving root? Indeed maybe it would be a safer and more portable installation.
E.g., who cares what MTA is installed when one can just use: #Untested partial .procmailrc for a mailman list on a catchall mailbox #for a domain. No need to have root adjust some MTA's configuration! 0: LIST=nurds *$^TO_ $LIST-\/(admin|bounces|confirm|join|leave|owner|request|subscribe|unsubscribe) |mail/mailman $MATCH $LIST 0: *$^TO_ $LIST |mail/mailman post $LIST And the mailman directory tree we just tailor in ./configure to match the site's apache setup. No meddling with apache config files. And sending mail we just send to port 25 or /usr/lib/sendmail. I mean one can install e.g., MediaWiki with all the bells and whistles without root. Does mailman run setuid root? No. SetGID seems no big hurdle on most unix accounts. CGI is a feature of most hosting accounts. Mailbox forwarding and aliases are features of most hosting accounts. There, see, I have rewritten your thinking: indeed a totally non-root-involved installation keeps one insulated from (and meddling with) the underlying details. Yes, rewritten your thinking, all without testing. Hope it really works. "What could go wrong?" ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
