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| author | mailman | 1998-04-13 19:59:28 +0000 |
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| committer | mailman | 1998-04-13 19:59:28 +0000 |
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Updated for 1.0b2.
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@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ -$Revision: 448 $, $Date: 1998-04-13 20:55:46 +0100 (Mon, 13 Apr 1998) $ +$Revision: 449 $, $Date: 1998-04-13 20:59:28 +0100 (Mon, 13 Apr 1998) $ +This is mailman, maillist management software written mostly in +Python. Mailman was originally developed by John Viega. Ken +Manheimer picked it up and refined some of the rough edges after some +versions were lost in a system crash, enough so that mailman is now +the production system for python.org. Hopefully we will see continued +development and blossoming of this very promising foundation through +the efforts of a bunch of people - there's a lot of potential here. + +Initial version of Mailman (v. 0.9) written by John Viega Dec 12-15 1996 +======= There's still much that I'd like to redo or add. I'm not incredibly proud of the code, and it's a bit embarassing to be sharing it at this point. The weakest points in my mind are probably the cgi scripts and @@ -7,8 +17,7 @@ html formatting. Unfortunately, I won't soon have the time to devote to doing it better. Initial version of Mailman (v. 0.9) written by John Viega Dec 12-15 -1996. -Refinements for mailman 1.0b2 by ken manheimer. +1996. Mailman 1.0b2 and 1.0b1.1 developments by ken manheimer. See file DONE for info on changes since v. 0.9 @@ -41,17 +50,15 @@ Install: handled by a config program) o As root, add a mailman user o As mailman, copy the mailman dir to /home/mailman. Currently the - system requires the source be located there. - [I've been making it a subdir of /home/mailman, ie, - /home/mailman/mailman. If it really should be the same dir, the - previous sentence should say "copy the contents of the mailman dir - to..." klm.] + system requires the source be located there. [I've been running + with the untarred mailman dir as a subdir of /home/mailman, so eg + maillist.py, the main mailman list object module, is situated as + /home/mailman/mailman/maillist.py.] o As mailman, in /home/mailman make public_html, cgi-bin, and logs - directories. (Chmod g+sw if multiple members of a group are - experimenting.) + directories. Chmod them g+sw. o As mailman, in /home/mailman make archives/private and archives/public - directories. (Chmod g+sw if multiple members of a group are - experimenting.) + directories. Chmod them g+sw. + o Copy /home/mailman/mailman/misc/Cookie.py to /home/mailman/cgi-bin o As root, Configure your web server to give /home/mailman/cgi-bin perms to run cgi in the cgi-bin dir, and restart the web server. The line you should add should look something like: |