README for mailman


PRE-INSTALL

  Execute the pre-install script to add a new mailman user/group


POST-INSTALL

  Mailman required the creation of a list on the server called 'mailman'.
  You should create it manually to avoid this message:
  'Site list is missing: mailman'
  Follow NOTES section in this README file for more information.


NOTES

  Configure options:

    $ less /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py
    $ sudo vim /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py

  Configure aliases for Postfix MTA:
  
    $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases
    $ sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf
  
    [...]
    alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases, ...
    [...]
  
    $ sudo newaliases

  To create a new list:

    $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist <list_name>

  To check perimissions:

    $ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -v

  Maybe after create your first list you need to setup some directories/files:

    $ sudo chown mailman:mailman /etc/mailman/aliases*
    $ sudo chmod 660 /etc/mailman/aliases.db

  To configure httpd settings (without vhosts) append this to your httpd.conf:

    [...]
    ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/">
      AllowOverride None
      Options ExecCGI
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>

    Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
    <Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public">
      Options +FollowSymLinks
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
    # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).
    RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
    [...]


  IMPORTANT: If archives/private is not o+x, then the owner of archives/private
  must be the web server user whatever that is - i.e. the web server user must be
  able to search in archives/private.

  $ ls -ld /var/lib/mailman/archives/p*
  drwxrws--x 6 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
  drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jan 12 17:02 /var/lib/mailman/archives/public

  The owner (root) is not important. the group is Mailman's group and may or may
  not be 'mailman' (e.g. on a debian/ubuntu package install, it is 'list')

  For more information:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node9.html