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Mailman 2.1.2, Apache 1.3.27, and Python 2.2.2:
On initial configuration, on attempting to create the mailman list itself, the output from newlist mailman is:
To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the `newaliases' program:
## mailman mailing list mailman: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/newlist", line 226, in ? main() File "bin/newlist", line 218, in main text, mlist.preferred_language) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 206, in __init__ errors='replace') TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'errors'
John S.