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7 Review your site defaults
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Mailman has a large number of site-wide configuration options which you should
now review and change according to your needs. Some of the options control
how Mailman interacts with your environment, and other options select defaults
for newly created lists<a name="tex2html5"
href="#foot733"><sup>5</sup></a>.
There are system tuning parameters and integration options.
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The full set of site-wide defaults lives in the
<span class="file"><var>$prefix</var>/Mailman/Defaults.py</span> file, however you should
<strong>never</strong> modify this file! Instead, change the <span class="file">mm_cfg.py</span> file in
that same directory. You only need to add values to <span class="file">mm_cfg.py</span> that are
different than the defaults in <span class="file">Defaults.py</span>, and future Mailman upgrades
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<br><hr><h4>Footnotes</h4>
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<dt><a name="foot733">... lists</a><A
href="customizing.html#tex2html5"><sup>5</sup></a></dt>
<dd>In general, changing the list defaults
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