[Watford] Mailman or other mailing list server

[Walt]

I forgot to ask:  How do I know whether the python interpreter is installed
and working?

Walter
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Many thanks Alain,

Maybe I should have explained.  I have been to www.list.org but simply do
not understand the half of it.  It's for Linux experts which I am not. I am
using suse 11 by the way.

Apache works as I can display the index.html from any pc on that network.  I
had php and mysql on there and all the admin pages for those components
worked after the install and a few tweaks. Fortunately the documentation on
that was such that even I understood it.

All the stuff on apache/mailman I can find on the web so far, refers to
older version where python was not needed.  

I'll persevere a little longer and see how I go with this. So any further
assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alain Williams
Sent: 21 November 2008 17:23
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Mailman or other mailing list server

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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