mailman-2.0.11-1 (Mailing List)

23/Sep/2002 tested by Redhat 7.2

This is GNU Mailman, a mailing list management system distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL). The name of this project is spelled "Mailman" with a leading capital `M' but with a lower case second `m'.

Install

Download mailman-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm from Redhat site

# rpm -ihv mailman-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm

            Preparing...               
            ########################################### [100%]

              
            1:mailman               
            ########################################### [100%]

To set the mailman administrator password.

# /var/mailman/bin/mmsitepass
New Password:
Again to confirm password:
Password changed.

Edit /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to customize mailman's configuration for your site.

# -*- python -*-

          # Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.

          #

          # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

          # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

          # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

          # of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

          #

          # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

          # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

          # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

          # GNU General Public License for more details.

          #

          # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

          # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

          # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
          02111-1307, USA.

          """This is the module which takes your site-specific
          settings.

          From a raw distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py.  If you

          already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings

          you want.  The complete set of distributed defaults, with
          annotation,

          are in ./Defaults.  In mm_cfg, override only those you want to

          change, after the

            from Defaults import *

          line (see below).

          Note that these are just default settings - many can be overridden via
          the

          admin and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis.

          Note also that some of the settings are resolved against the active
          list

          setting by using the value as a format string against the

          list-instance-object's dictionary - see the distributed value of

          DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER for an example."""

          #######################################################

          #    Here's where we get the distributed
          defaults.    #

          from Defaults import *

          import pwd, grp

          ##############################################################

          #    Here's where we override shipped defaults with
          settings #

          #    suitable for the RPM
          package.                          
          #

          MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2]

          MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]

          LOG_DIR     = '/var/log/mailman'

          QUEUE_DIR   = '/var/spool/mailman/qfiles'

          ##############################################################

          # Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . #

          # See Defaults.py for explanations of the
          values.           
          #

          # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'localhost.localdomain'

          DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'www.yourhost.bt'

          DEFAULT_URL       = 'http://%s/mailman/'
          % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME

          MAILMAN_OWNER     = 'mailman-owner@%s' %
          DEFAULT_HOST_NAME

          # Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg,
          but you

          # didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py.

Edit /var/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py

...

          # SMTP host and port, when DELIVERY_MODULE is 'SMTPDirect'

          SMTPHOST = 'www.yourhost.bt'

          SMTPPORT = 25                                     
          # default from smtplib

          ...

Modify the sendmail configuration to ensure that it is running and accepting connections from the outside world (to ensure that it runs, set "DAEMON=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, ensuring that it accepts connections from the outside world may require modifying /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerating sendmail.cf)
Add "Include conf/httpd-mailman.conf" to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

...
Include conf/httpd-mailman.conf

Make a new mailing list

# /var/mailman/bin/newlist
Enter the name of the list: hogelist
Enter the email of the person running the list: [email protected]
Initial hogelist password:
Entry for aliases file:

## hogelist mailing list
## created: 13-Sep-2002 root
hogelist:                "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post hogelist"
hogelist-admin:          "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner hogelist"
hogelist-request:        "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd hogelist"
hogelist-owner:          hogelist-admin

Hit enter to continue with hogelist owner notification...

add above list to /etc/aliases

...
## hogelist mailing list
## created: 13-Sep-2002 root
hogelist:                "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post hogelist"
hogelist-admin:          "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner hogelist"
hogelist-request:        "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd hogelist"
hogelist-owner:          hogelist-admin

Enable new aliases

# newaliases
/etc/aliases: 46 aliases, longest 47 bytes, 632 bytes total

Maintenance

Mailing list administration
http://www.yourhost.bt/mailman/admin
Lists of all the public mailing lists on the server
http://www.yourhost.bt/mailman/listinfo
For a security matter, you should hold an attachment file
1. Open http://www.yourhost.bt/mailman/admin
2. Click your maing list
3. Click "Privacy Options"
4. In "Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp"
  
  content-type: multipart
  x-mmoriginal-content-type: multipart

Full-Text Search for Archive by Namazu

(This example is on RedHat7.2 box)

Install Namazu (I got it from RedHat7.3 CDROM) and perl-File-MMagic (from RedHat7.2)

# rpm -ihv --force --nodeps \

              namazu-devel-2.0.10-4.i386.rpm \

              namazu-cgi-2.0.10-4.i386.rpm \

              namazu-2.0.10-4.i386.rpm \

              perl-File-MMagic-1.06-2.i386.rpm

Make namazu filter for pipermail in /usr/share/namazu/filter/pipermail.pl

#

              # -*- Perl -*-

              #

              #     This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO
              WARRANTY.

              #

              #  This program is free software; you can redistribute it
              and/or modify

              #  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
              published by

              #  the Free Software Foundation; either versions 2, or (at
              your option)

              #  any later version.

              #

              #  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
              useful

              #  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
              warranty of

              #  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
              See the

              #  GNU General Public License for more details.

              #

              #  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
              License

              #  along with this program; if not, write to the Free
              Software

              #  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA

              #  02111-1307, USA

              #

              package pipermail;

              use strict;

              require 'util.pl';

              require 'gfilter.pl';

              require 'html.pl';

              require 'mailnews.pl';

              #

              # This pattern specifies pipermail's file names.

              #

              my $PIPERMAIL_MESSAGE_FILE = '\d{6}\.html';

              sub mediatype() {

                  return ('text/html; x-type=pipermail');

              }

              sub status() {

                  return 'yes';

              }

              sub recursive() {

                  return 0;

              }

              sub pre_codeconv() {

                  return 1;

              }

              sub post_codeconv () {

                  return 0;

              }

              sub add_magic ($) {

                  return;

              }

              sub filter ($$$$$) {

                  my ($orig_cfile, $contref, $weighted_str,
              $headings, $fields)

                    = @_;

                  my $cfile = defined $orig_cfile ? $$orig_cfile
              : '';

                  util::vprint("Processing pipermail file
              ...\n");

                  unless ($cfile =~ /($PIPERMAIL_MESSAGE_FILE)$/o) 

                  {

              return "is Pipermail's index file! skipped."; # error

                  } 

                  pipermail_filter($contref, $weighted_str,
              $fields);

                  html::html_filter($contref, $weighted_str,
              $fields, $headings);

                  $$contref =~ s/^\s+//;

                  mailnews::uuencode_filter($contref);

                  mailnews::mailnews_filter($contref, $weighted_str,
              $fields);

                  mailnews::mailnews_citation_filter($contref, $weighted_str);

                  gfilter::line_adjust_filter($contref);

                  gfilter::line_adjust_filter($weighted_str);

                  gfilter::white_space_adjust_filter($contref);

                  gfilter::show_filter_debug_info($contref, $weighted_str,

                 $fields, $headings);

                  return undef;

              }

              # Assume a normal message files by pipermail (mailman edition)

              sub pipermail_filter ($$) {

                  my ($contref, $weighted_str) = @_;

                  $$contref =~ s/<!--endarticle-->.*//s;

                  $$contref =~ s/(<\/H1>).*<!--beginarticle-->/$1/s;

              }

              1;

Make working directory for namazu

# mkdir /var/mailman/namazu

Make a script to make an index /var/mailman/namazu/make_namazu

#!/bin/csh

              # setenv LANG en

              cd /var/mailman/namazu

              /usr/bin/mknmz --media-type='text/html; x-type=pipermail' \

                   /var/mailman/archives/public/*

Chenge permission and execute it

# chmod 755 make_namazu
# ./make_namazu
Copy namazu.cgi into mailman cgi directory

# cp /var/www/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi /var/mailman/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi

Make /var/mailman/cgi-bin/.namazurc

Index        
              /var/mailman/namazu

              Template      /var/mailman/namazu

              Replace       /var/mailman/archives/public
              http://www.yourhost.bt/pipermail/

Run make_namazu frequently by crontab -e

0 3 * * * /var/mailman/namazu/make_namazu
Open a searching page http://www.yourhost.bt/mailman/namazu.cgi
Change template files at /var/mailman/namazu/

How to edit mailing list members

Open this URL http://www.yourhost.bt/mailman/admin
Select a mailing list
Type a password
After seeing [General Options Section]. click [Membership Management...].
To add members, click [Mass Subscription] link and enter e-mail addresses in the textbox, and click [Submit Your Changes].
To remove members, click [Membership List] link, click the left side checkbox [unsub] on, and click [Submit Your Changes].

How to configure the mailing list

Open this URL, select the mailing list and login. http://mail.unsudanig.org/mailman/admin
Click [General Options Section]
Add your mail address to [The list administraotr email addresses] and [The list moderator email addresses] text box.
Add descriptions to [A terse phase identifying this list] and [A introductory description] text box.
Click [No] at [Send monthly password reminders?], [Send welcome message to newly subscribed members?] and [Send goodbye message to members...]
Click [Yes] at [Should the list moderators get immediate notice...], [Shoud administrator get notices of subscribes and unsubscribes?], [Send mail to poster when their posting is held for approval?]
Chenge [Maximum length in kilobytes (KB) of a message body...] to [0] to unlimit the length.
Click [Submit Your Changes] button.
Click [Privacy options...] at the configuration categories.
Click [Sender filters] at the configuration categories.
Click [Accept] at [Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined.]
Click [Recepient filters] at Configuration Categories.
Type [200] at the [Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting].
Click [Submit Your Changes] button.

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