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+Title: Customize Mailman
+Links: links.h install-links.h
+
+<h3>Customize Mailman</h3>
+
+    You should do these steps using the account you installed Mailman
+    under in section 2 above.
+
+    <ul>
+    <li>The file <code>$prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py</code> contains a number of
+      defaults for your installation.  If any of these are incorrect,
+      override them in <code>$prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py</code>, <b>NOT
+      IN</b> <code>Defaults.py</code>!  See the comments in
+      <code>Defaults.py</code> for details.  Once a list is created,
+      editing many of these variables will have no effect (you need to
+      configure your lists through the web admin interface or through
+      the command line script <code>bin/config_list</code>).
+
+      <p>Specifically check to make sure the variables
+      <em>DEFAULT_HOST_NAME</em> and <em>DEFAULT_URL</em> are correct.
+
+      <p>The install process will not overwrite an existing
+      <code>mm_cfg.py</code> file so you can freely make changes to
+      this file.
+
+      <p><b>Note:</b> Do <b>not</b> change <em>HOME_DIR</em> or
+      <em>MAILMAN_DIR</em>.  These are set automatically by the
+      configure script.
+
+    <p><li>Create the site password using:
+
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+$prefix/bin/mmsitepass your-site-password
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+
+        <p>This password can be used anywhere that individual user or
+        mailing list administrator passwords are required, giving the
+        mailman site administrator the ability to adjust these things
+        when necessary.
+     </ul>