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Mailman Documentation
- -On-line documentation for Mailman 2.1 is still under construction, but -is organized among the following audiences: - --
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- Users -- anybody who is a member - of a mailing list managed by Mailman. This documentation explains - how you can subscribe and unsubscribe from mailing lists, how to - change your personal options, and how to interact with other parts - of the Mailman system. - -
- List Managers -- anybody who - is a list administrator or moderator for a mailing list. This - documentation goes into all the gory details about how to set up - your lists, what the various options mean and control, and how to - manage the membership of your mailing list. - -
- Site Administrators -- anybody - who is installing and setting up a Mailman site. This documentation - contains all the information about installing Mailman, integrating it with - your mail and web servers, setting list defaults, configuring virtual - domains, and enabling various options for your list administrators. This - documentation also gives some hints on how to tune Mailman for optimal - performance. - -
- Translators -- anybody who is - contributing to internationalization support for Mailman. This - describes contact addresses for the current language champions and - tells you what you need to do if you want to contribute a new - language translation to the project (more are always welcome!). -
Other Resources
- -The University of -Washington has some very nice documentation on their installation of -Mailman. It may be specific to UW's set up at times, but you might find it -useful as a general help guide too. - -
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is -available to answer the most common questions. See also the community -driven Mailman -FAQ Wizard. Feel free to add or correct entries in the FAQ Wizard --- this is your resource for helping your colleagues. The password is -Mailman (yes, we use the honor system here). - -
For issues not covered in the FAQ or documentation pages above, -please check the -archives -of the Mailman-Users -mailing list. If your question is not covered in the documentation, -FAQ, or list archives, then you can send your questions to the -mailman-users list. We suggest you -subscribe to the -list first - then submit your question - so that your question will be -distributed quickly to the list subscribers and replies also will be -distributed quickly back to you. - -
Chris Kolar has made -available Mailman -documentation, primarily for list owners who are not necessarily -technical, but who own Mailman mailing lists. - -
Nigel Metheringham has posted a -HOWTO on using Exim -and Mailman together. If you're using the -Exim mailer you should check this out. - -
The Mailman source distribution itself -contains many README files for discussion of issues specific to -operating system, mail transport agent, or web server. - -