Mark, I have been using IS Mail, which is an email server program on a Win 7 64 bit machine for a number of years. What this is used for is to send Alert Activation's (very short messages) to a group of volunteers that assist the county during emergencies (ie, flooding, severe weather, tornadic activity, power outages, etc). It basically will mobilize the troops. As of late, many of the messages that have been sent range from getting marked by gmail as spam to completely bounced by Verizon (using the phone number @ vtext.com syntax). My thought was to find a different/alternate email server program that I can do the same thing with. Since many of the reflectors I subscribe to use Mailman, I though I would give it a go. The requirement was to use a Linux based system in order to do this. I know ZERO about Linux.
What I have done so far is to install Virtual Box on the Win 7 64 machine and also install Ubuntu within VirtualBox. I used Ubuntu to download Mailman and then extract it to a separate file folder. That's where I am at. Because of my lack of Linux, I am stuck as to how to start Mailman or even set it up. My intent here is to create three lists as I have now with IS Mail so that the Emergency Coordinator can send a message to the reflector and it will notify the subscribed email addresses for the volunteers subsequently activating the group. Regards, Anthony (N2KI) On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > On 08/05/2014 05:44 PM, Anthony (N2KI) wrote: > > > > I am new to the list and new to mailman. I have Mailman extracted to its > > own file on Ubuntu but I do not know how to setup the software or to > start > > it. I reviewed the GNU Mailman - List Admin Manual but did not see how > to > > start the software. I have Ubuntu running on a virtual drive. Any > help > > is appreciated. > > > Assuming you've run 'configure' and 'make install' and just want to > start Mailman, see <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node42.html>. > > If that doesn't help, please be more specific about what you've done and > what isn't working. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/n2ki.ham%40gmail.com > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org