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| -rw-r--r-- | README.EXIM | 5 | ||||
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diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS index e16560a0..e593f270 100644 --- a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS +++ b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System -Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1998-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA The following folks are or have been the primary maintainers of Mailman: @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ in answering questions on mailman-users. Hye-Shik Chang Paul Cox Emilio Delgado + John Dennis Stefan Divjak Maximillian Dornseif Fred Drake @@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ in answering questions on mailman-users. Paul Hebble Tollef Fog Heen Peer Heinlein + Walter Hop + Bert Hubert Henny Huisman Jeremy Hylton Ron Jarrell @@ -133,6 +136,7 @@ in answering questions on mailman-users. John Read Sean Reifschneider Christian Reis + Ademar de Souza Reis, Jr. Bernhard Reiter Stephan Richter Tristan Roddis @@ -162,9 +166,11 @@ in answering questions on mailman-users. Kathleen Webb Ousmane Wilane Dan Wilder + Seb Wills Michael Yount Blair Zajac Noam Zeilberger + Todd Zullinger And everyone else on mailman-developers@python.org and mailman-users@python.org! Thank you, all. @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System -Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA This file contains installation instructions for GNU Mailman, which is @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ upgrade. security is based on group-ownership permissions, so it is important to get this step right. If groupname `mailman' is already in use, choose something else unique and see the - --with-groupname below. + --with-groupname below. The mailman user created in the + previous step must be a member of this group. - Create an installation directory (called $prefix in the documentation that follows). All of the Mailman files will be @@ -315,6 +316,32 @@ upgrade. Now restart your web server. + - Create a "site-wide" mailing list. This is the one that + password reminders will appear to come from. Usually this + should be the "mailman" mailing list, but if you need to change + this, be sure to change the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable in + mm_cfg.py (see below). + + % bin/newlist mailman + + Follow the prompts, and see the README file for more + information. + + Now configure your site list. There is a convenient template + for a generic site list in misc/sitelist.cfg to help you with + this. The template can be applied to your site list by running: + + % bin/config_list -i data/sitelist.cfg mailman + + Before doing this, review the configuration options in the + template (note that many options are not changed by + sitelist.cfg). After you do this, be sure you review the + configurations via the admin pages for this list. + + Be sure to subscribe yourself to the site list, but use the + admin interface because mailback subscription confirmations + won't work at this point. + - Set up the crontab entries. Mailman runs a number of cron jobs for its basic functionality. Note that if you're upgrading from a previous version of Mailman, you'll want to install the new @@ -388,19 +415,6 @@ upgrade. add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) - - Create a "site-wide" mailing list. This is the one that - password reminders will appear to come from. Usually this - should be the "mailman" mailing list, but if you need to change - this, be sure to change the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable in - mm_cfg.py (see below). - - % bin/newlist mailman - - Follow the prompts, and see the README file for more - information. - - - You should then subscribe yourself to the mailman list. - 5. Customize Mailman @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Copyright (C) 1998-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman. +2.1.2 (31-Mar-2003) + + 2.1.1 (08-Feb-2003) Lots of bug fixes and language updates. Also: @@ -20,7 +23,6 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman. attachments would screw up plaintext digests. MIME digests include the attachments inline. - 2.1 final (30-Dec-2002) Last minute bug fixes and language updates. diff --git a/README.EXIM b/README.EXIM index c1e93827..72e3eaa5 100644 --- a/README.EXIM +++ b/README.EXIM @@ -99,9 +99,6 @@ i.e. somewhere between the first and second "end" line: user = MAILMAN_USER group = MAILMAN_GROUP -(XXX this is untested by me under Exim 3! Can someone using Exim 3 -please let me know if it works?) - Director for Exim 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -270,8 +267,6 @@ like this in your "DATA" ACL: deny !condition = $header_X-WhitelistedRCPT-nohdrfromcallback: !verify = header_sender/callout=90s -[XXX all this stuff is completely untested by me! -Greg] - Doing VERP with Exim and Mailman -------------------------------- diff --git a/README.POSTFIX b/README.POSTFIX index 204fd26c..00d66c34 100644 --- a/README.POSTFIX +++ b/README.POSTFIX @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System -Copyright (C) 2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA @@ -9,21 +9,33 @@ GENERAL SETUP INFORMATION Postfix installation. As of this writing I've tested it with Postfix 19991231 up to pl13, and with 200010228 up to pl08. - It is recommended that you set "owner_request_special = no" in - your main.cf config file so that Postfix won't treat -owner and - -request addresses specially (we want Postfix to simply deliver - such messages to the Mailman wrapper). The default is "yes" I - believe. + By default, Postfix treats -owner and -request addresses + specially. Since we want Postfix to deliver such messages to + Mailman, you should turn off this option by adding this to your + main.cf file: + + owner_request_special = no In order to support Mailman's optional VERP delivery, you will want to disable luser_relay (the default) and you will want to set - recipient_delimiter for extended address semantics. Here, my - recommendations are to comment out any luser_relay value in your - main.cf and just go with the defaults. Also, set - "recipient_delimiter = +" so that the symbol used to separate an - address from its extended semantics is a + sign. This will work - well with the default values for VERP_FORMAT and VERP_REGEXP in - Defaults.py. + recipient_delimiter for extended address semantics. You should + comment out any luser_relay value in your main.cf and just go with + the defaults. Also, add this to your main.cf file: + + recipient_delimiter = + + + Using + as the delimiter works well with the default values for + VERP_FORMAT and VERP_REGEXP in Defaults.py. + + When attempting to deliver a message to a non-existent local + address, Postfix may return a 450 error code. Since this is a + non-transient error code, Mailman will continue to attempt to + delivery the message for DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD (5 days by + default). You might want to set Postfix up so that it returns + permanent error codes for non-existent local users by adding the + following to your main.cf file: + + unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 Finally, if you are using Postfix-style virtual domains, read the section on virtual domain support below. @@ -98,7 +110,7 @@ INTEGRATING POSTFIX AND MAILMAN that it will take about a minute for Postfix to notice the change to the aliases.db file and update its tables. I consider this a minor inconvenience. - + VIRTUAL DOMAINS @@ -160,7 +172,7 @@ VIRTUAL DOMAINS breaking the delivery of any dom1.ain mailing list. However, you would include dom2.ain and dom3.ain in mm_cfg.py: - + POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['dom2.ain', 'dom3.ain'] Now, any list that Mailman creates in either of those two domains, @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System -Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1998-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA The Mailman Wishlist -(Last Update: $Date: 2002-11-19 06:50:54 +0000 (Tue, 19 Nov 2002) $) +(Last Update: $Date: 2003-03-31 20:07:40 +0100 (Mon, 31 Mar 2003) $) Here's the wish list for future versions of Mailman. Many new - features have been added to Mailman 2.1, so what's left will - probably end up in a Mailman 3.0. + features have been added to Mailman 2.1, and it is currently + undecided whether the next release will be 2.2 or 3.0. Please also see the Mailman design notes wiki at |