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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
barry (at) list dot org
Release 2.1
- January 11, 2009
+ December 14, 2009
Front Matter
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual
% chgrp mailman .
% chmod a+rx,g+ws .
+ Warning: The installation directory, $prefix, cannot be the same
+ directory that the source tarball has been unpacked to and in which
+ you run configure, but it can, if you wish, be a subdirectory, e.g.,
+ $prefix/src.
+
You are now ready to configure and install the Mailman software.
3 Build and install Mailman
@@ -1138,6 +1143,23 @@ fi
% su - mailman
% crontab crontab.in
+ Warning: If you accepted the defaults for the --with-username option
+ and for the name of the site list, and one of the cron jobs ever
+ encounters an error, the cron daemon will mail the error output to the
+ 'mailman' user and it will most likely be delivered to the 'mailman'
+ site list and possibly not be accepted. For this reason it is a good
+ idea to insert
+
+ MAILTO=user@example.com
+
+ or
+
+ MAILTO=mailman-owner
+
+ at the beginning of crontab.in before installing it to cause this
+ output to be mailed to a real user or to the owner of the site list or
+ to configure the site list (see section 8) to accept this mail.
+
10 Start the Mailman qrunner
Mailman depends on a process called the ``qrunner'' to delivery all
@@ -1503,7 +1525,7 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
About this document ...
- GNU Mailman - Installation Manual, January 11, 2009, Release 2.1
+ GNU Mailman - Installation Manual, December 14, 2009, Release 2.1
This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator.
@@ -1558,4 +1580,4 @@ tar xvf MailmanStartup.tar
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_________________________________________________________________
- Release 2.1, documentation updated on January 11, 2009.
+ Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 14, 2009.