[Watford] Mailman or other mailing list server

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 05:19:09PM -0000, Walt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been away 'up the frozen north' for a while but I hope to be at the
> next meeting.
> 
> I need some help with mailman.  I just cannot find instructions as to how to
> use the web-admin page. Everything is installed (I think), apache, python,
> mailman but I have no idea what the url and/or port numbers are supposed to
> be.  So I am stuck as usual.  

Go to the web address, should be something like:

	http://listhost.somewhere.org.uk/mailman/listinfo

How have you configured apache ?

> If there is an easier, simple mail list server out there which does not need
> python let me know.  

mailman has a few problems (like storing everything in a python pickle) but it is the
best OSS one that I know.

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