Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Mark Sapiro wrote: John Wheaton wrote: I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, and how best to integrate it with our current web site. Our school maintains an informational website at www.stfrancishighschool.com, hosted by IgLou in Louisville. We have been discussing with a few

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Mauricio Tavares
John Wheaton wrote: Hello, I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, and how best to integrate it with our current web site. Our school maintains an informational website at www.stfrancishighschool.com, hosted by IgLou in Louisville. We have been discussing with a few alumni the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Richard Barrett
On 20 Oct 2004, at 17:04, Mauricio Tavares wrote: John Wheaton wrote: Hello, I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, and how best to integrate it with our current web site. Our school maintains an informational website at www.stfrancishighschool.com, hosted by IgLou in Louisville.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:08 PM +0100 2004-10-21, Richard Barrett wrote: I have been warned by experts that NFS locking could be a problem with this way of working but thus far it has not proven to be a problem. Locking is the bane of any administrator using NFS. Nick Christenson wrote a seminal paper on how to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread John Dennis
the only IMAP server I know of that uses Maildir (a storage format that is supposedly NFS-friendly) is Courier-IMAP FWIW, the dovecot IMAP server supports Maildir. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:37 PM -0400 2004-10-21, John Dennis wrote: FWIW, the dovecot IMAP server supports Maildir. Never heard of it. Is it based on UW-IMAP, Courier-IMAP, or Cyrus? Those are the big three. I don't know of any other IMAP server that anyone is using in any kind of significant operation that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 17:00, Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:37 PM -0400 2004-10-21, John Dennis wrote: FWIW, the dovecot IMAP server supports Maildir. Never heard of it. Is it based on UW-IMAP, Courier-IMAP, or Cyrus? Those are the big three. I don't know of any other IMAP

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:20 PM -0400 2004-10-21, John Dennis wrote: http://dovecot.org It uses mmap(), which is not safe on NFS. This is why Cyrus can't be used on NFS. This defeats the principle purpose of using Maildir. If you're going to do that, you might as well use either UW-IMAP or Cyrus, both of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Richard Barrett
On 21 Oct 2004, at 20:43, Brad Knowles wrote: At 7:08 PM +0100 2004-10-21, Richard Barrett wrote: I have been warned by experts that NFS locking could be a problem with this way of working but thus far it has not proven to be a problem. Locking is the bane of any administrator using NFS. Nick

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:17 AM +0100 2004-10-22, Richard Barrett wrote: 1. handling of files containing messages queued for processing as they are moved along the chain of queues from initial delivery by the MTA to handoff to the outbound MTA and to the archiver. The code in $prefix/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:04 PM -0400 2004-10-20, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Probably, the best way to do it is kinda like what you infered: install mailman in the webserver and then automount the data directories. I'll be playing with that and keep you all posted with my adventures. Automounter is a traditional

[Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-19 Thread John Wheaton
Hello, I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, and how best to integrate it with our current web site. Our school maintains an informational website at www.stfrancishighschool.com, hosted by IgLou in Louisville. We have been discussing with a few alumni the possibility of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Wheaton wrote: I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, and how best to integrate it with our current web site. Our school maintains an informational website at www.stfrancishighschool.com, hosted by IgLou in Louisville. We have been discussing with a few alumni the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:42 PM -0400 2004-10-18, John Wheaton wrote: I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, Yes, it will work on Solaris. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.024.htp for some information on this topic.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris-based web server

2004-10-19 Thread Richard Barrett
On 19 Oct 2004, at 19:50, Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:42 PM -0400 2004-10-18, John Wheaton wrote: I am curious whether Mailman will work on Solaris, Yes, it will work on Solaris. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.024.htp for some information on this topic.