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Diffstat (limited to 'net-mail')
| -rw-r--r-- | net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net-mail/mailman/files/README.gentoo-r2 | 149 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild | 16 |
3 files changed, 167 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog b/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog index f9cdb787b5f9..eb676cdbf9c0 100644 --- a/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog +++ b/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ # ChangeLog for net-mail/mailman -# Copyright 2002-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog,v 1.103 2007/11/26 02:24:29 hanno Exp $ +# Copyright 2002-2008 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/ChangeLog,v 1.104 2008/01/22 15:47:36 hanno Exp $ + + 22 Jan 2008; Hanno Boeck <hanno@gentoo.org> +files/README.gentoo-r2, + mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild: + Change documentation for new paths, issue a warning about mailman user + homedir, change dep to virtual/httpd-cgi. 26 Nov 2007; Hanno Boeck <hanno@gentoo.org> mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild: Make user and group configurable, resolves #194862, thanks to Sebastian diff --git a/net-mail/mailman/files/README.gentoo-r2 b/net-mail/mailman/files/README.gentoo-r2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5149b1feed68 --- /dev/null +++ b/net-mail/mailman/files/README.gentoo-r2 @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation +# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/files/README.gentoo-r2,v 1.1 2008/01/22 15:47:37 hanno Exp $ + +Follow these instructions to finish setting up mailman. This file and the +original ebuild were tweaked by me <lamer@gentoo.org> but were graciously +submitted by Joby Walker (YOU RULE!) +2003 Jul 09: updated by Jesus Perez and re-tweaked by me <raker@gentoo.org> +for 2.1.x. + +Please view the documentation on Mailman at: http://www.list.org/ + +This documentation assumes you're using the default gentoo path +(/usr/lib/mailman/), if you've changed it with MAILMAN_PREFIX, adjust them +accordingly. + +1) If this is your first time installing mailman, after your "emerge mailman", +you need to add -D MAILMAN to /etc/conf.d/apache or /etc/conf.d/apache2 and restart +apache. + +2) In your /etc/conf.d/apache (for apache 1.x) + or /etc/conf.d/apache2 (for apache 2.x) + file add the additional option to the + APACHE_OPTS or APACHE2_OPTS variable: + + -D MAILMAN + +3) Make sure mailman is a part of the cron group + +4) This must be done as user mailman: + + su - mailman + +Add the cron jobs: + + cd cron + crontab crontab.in + cd .. + +Create the site password: + + bin/mmsitepass + +and main list: + + bin/newlist mailman + + +5) Change back to root: + + exit + +(Postfix users: read the notes at the end of this file before you continue) +Add this to /etc/mail/aliases (and see point 9 for notes): + mailman: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" + mailman-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" + mailman-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" + mailman-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" + mailman-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" + mailman-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" + mailman-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" + mailman-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" + mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" + mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" + +For courier, the aliases have to go to /etc/courier/aliases and you have to skip +the quotes. + +Run newaliases (only if you use sendmail). + + newaliases + +Copy the web icons: + cp /usr/lib/mailman/icons/* /var/www/localhost/icons + +6) Start the mailman daemon: + + /etc/init.d/mailman start + +and add it to default runlevel (optional but recommended): + + rc-update add mailman default + +7) For each list created (either with web interface or with bin/newlist) +this must be added to /etc/mail/aliases (see smrsh notes below) +replace <list-name> with the name of the list: + + <list-name>: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post <list-name>" + <list-name>-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin <list-name>" + <list-name>-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces <list-name>" + <list-name>-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm <list-name>" + <list-name>-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join <list-name>" + <list-name>-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave <list-name>" + <list-name>-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner <list-name>" + <list-name>-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request <list-name>" + <list-name>-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe <list-name>" + <list-name>-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe <list-name>" + +For courier, the aliases have to go to /etc/courier/aliases and you have to skip +the quotes. + +Run newaliases: + + newaliases + +smrsh notes +----------- +(if you use sendmail, you are surely using srmsh) you must note that +sendmail won't run any program outside of EBINDIR. I tried to change +EBINDIR using,define(`confEBINDIR', `/usr/lib/mailman/mail')dnl in +sendmail.mc but it didn't work, so mailman must be placed in EBINDIR, +which in Gentoo is /usr/adm/sm.bin, so you must run as root: + + ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman /usr/adm/sm.bin/mailman + +And the lines in /etc/mail/aliases which refer to +/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman must be changed to mailman: + + <list-name>: "|mailman post <list-name>" + <list-name>-admin: "|mailman admin <list-name>" + <list-name>-bounces: "|mailman bounces <list-name>" + <list-name>-confirm: "|mailman confirm <list-name>" + <list-name>-join: "|mailman join <list-name>" + <list-name>-leave: "|mailman leave <list-name>" + <list-name>-owner: "|mailman owner <list-name>" + <list-name>-request: "|mailman request <list-name>" + <list-name>-subscribe: "|mailman subscribe <list-name>" + <list-name>-unsubscribe: "|mailman unsubscribe <list-name>" + + +Other Helpful things to know... +------------------------------- +run "bin/check_perms -f" from the root mailman directory +(/usr/lib/mailman) to check and fix permission problems. + +The INSTALL file is located in /usr/share/doc/mailman-$VERSION/ + +Postfix notes +------------- +If you're using Postfix, don't manually change your /etc/mail/aliases +file, as described above. Instead, follow these instructions: + +http://list.org/mailman-install/node13.html + +This will set up Mailman and Postfix to automatically generate the new +aliases when you create new lists. It will also make sure that Postfix +uses the correct group ID when it's talking to Mailman, otherwise you +will get security errors from Mailman. + diff --git a/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild b/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild index ec48bbdbaff7..18a967d53225 100644 --- a/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild +++ b/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation +# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild,v 1.7 2007/11/27 11:31:21 hanno Exp $ +# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.9-r2.ebuild,v 1.8 2008/01/22 15:47:36 hanno Exp $ inherit eutils python multilib @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ IUSE="" DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.3 virtual/mta virtual/cron - || ( www-servers/apache www-servers/lighttpd )" + virtual/httpd-cgi" pkg_setup() { INSTALLDIR=${MAILMAN_PREFIX:-"/usr/$(get_libdir)/mailman"} @@ -62,8 +62,10 @@ src_install () { dosed "s:/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin:${INSTALLDIR}/cgi-bin:g" /etc/apache2/modules.d/50_mailman.conf dosed "s:/usr/local/mailman/archives:${VAR_PREFIX}/archives:g" /etc/apache2/modules.d/50_mailman.conf - dodoc "${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo" ACK* BUGS FAQ NEWS README* TODO UPGRADING INSTALL \ - contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity contrib/virtusertable contrib/mailman.mc || die "dodoc failed" + newdoc "${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo-r2" README.gentoo || die "newdoc failed" + + dodoc ACK* BUGS FAQ NEWS README* TODO UPGRADING INSTALL contrib/mailman.mc \ + contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity contrib/virtusertable || die "dodoc failed" exeinto ${INSTALLDIR}/bin doexe build/contrib/*.py contrib/majordomo2mailman.pl contrib/auto \ @@ -131,6 +133,10 @@ pkg_postinst() { ewarn "MAILMAN_MAILGID (default: 280)" ewarn ewarn "Config file is now symlinked in /etc/mailman, so etc-update works." + ewarn + ewarn "If you're upgrading from below 2.1.9-r2 or changed MAILMAN_PREFIX, you" + ewarn "MUST change the homedir of the mailman-user manually:" + ewarn "usermod -d ${INSTALLDIR} mailman" ebeep } |