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Cookbook: Setting up Mailman

GNU Mailman is the most spread software for managing mailing-lists.

To install Mailman you will have to actually do several things: . Install the software . Set up your web server. . Set up your mail server.

This recipe is meant to be used as a complement of the official installation instructions, not as a replacement, and as such it only covers the section specific to Cherokee: the configuration of the web server.

Very little configuration is required by Mailman to work. Simply setting up a couple of paths -the location of the Mailman archive and the cgi-bin directory path- should be enough. However the same task can be performed more elegantly if you set up a subdomain just to run the lists. This is the approach we will be taking in the recipe.

Lets assume we want to configure the domain lists.example.net.

Lets proceed with the rules. First delete the ones available. As always, the Default rule is non-erasable. We will be creating some rules. Unless otherwise stated, you must assume they are all Final. Also create them in the specified order, since the order of evaluation is relevant to Cherokee and these are the conditions used during the tests. Creating them in this order will assign a reversed sort, being the last one defined the first one that gets evaluated. Leaving the Use I/O cache on for the Static content handlers makes a lot of sense.

This is a working example of the above mentioned handler configuration.

Mailman configuration

Once you have followed the rest of the installation instructions, you will be able to access your instance of Mailman. If you want to see a live example of the above mentioned configuration, simply visit the Cherokee Project Mailing Lists.