Mailman on Gentoo

Setting up the Mailman application on Gentoo

Author: M Butcher
Date: 2003-11-12 16:57:32 -0600

Update Nov. 2003: I believe there is now an ebuild.

As of this writing (June 30, 2002), there is no Mailman ebuild for Gentoo. When I have a chance, I will build one. However, here are a few additional considerations for installing Mailman.

Once the install was done, I had to do a good bit of work configuring Apache. In addition to the aliases, I also had to set the permissions for the mailman and pipermail directories -- something like this for mailman:

# MAILMAN CGI directory
<Directory /home/mailman/cgi-bin>
    AllowOverride All
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Also, I had to be careful about the group I set for postfix to execute shell commands. I had to reconfigure things a few times to get the \"default_priv s\" flag in /etc/postfix/main.cf to sync with the --with-mail-gid flag for Mailman\'s configure script. Though things work now, I\'m not sure that I set them up in the best way. Ideally, I probably should have created a new non-priv group for this specific task.