On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Barry Warsaw barry@list.org wrote:
On May 03, 2012, at 09:20 PM, David wrote:
... I need a good tutorial on setting up the development environment,
For me, it depends on whether you want to develop mm3 or install it.
I want to install and run it and play with it like a user. I'm not a python developer (at least not yet, and not sure if I'll ever get that far).
If instead you want to run Mailman 3, I recommend using virtualenv and skipping buildout.
OK. Thanks for the advice.
I'll detail my steps in case it helps someone else. (I also have a few questions mixed in below.) Here's what I did:
install Ubuntu 12.04 create DNS records ssh into Ubuntu server sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-virtualenv cd /opt/ wget https://launchpad.net/mailman/3.0/3.0.0b1/+download/mailman-3.0.0b1.tar.gz tar -xf mailman-3.0.0b1.tar.gz mkdir mailman3 (for virtualenv - see note below about correcting my directory names; this should have been named mailman3_venv) # virtualenv /opt/mailman3/ (New python executable in /opt/mailman3/bin/python)
I do recommend creating an etc/mailman.cfg to customize various aspects of
Mailman before you start. Take a look at src/mailman/config/schema.cfg and .../mailman.cfg for the default settings.
# nano /etc/mailman.cfg done
sudo apt-get install postfix openssl-blacklist ssl-cert
# nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
***************** QUESTION ********************* Are the following paths correct??? transport_maps = hash:/opt/mailman3/var/data/postfix_lmtp local_recipient_maps = hash:/opt/mailman3/var/data/postfix_lmtp
After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'. root@li437-28:/etc/postfix# /etc/init.d/postfix reload
- Reloading Postfix configuration... [ OK ]
source /opt/mailman3/bin/activate
python setup.py install Finished processing dependencies for mailman==3.0.0b1
NOTE: After doing all this, I see that I named my directories wrong. I think I'll repeat it and name the extracted tarball directory mailman3/ and the virtualenv directory mailman3_venv/ next time.
Now you can run mailman info
to get some basic information about how your
system is configured,
(mailman3)root@localhost:/opt/mailman-3.0.0b1# mailman info GNU Mailman 3.0.0b1 (The Twilight Zone) Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 20 2012, 22:39:59) [GCC 4.6.3] config file: /etc/mailman.cfg db url: sqlite:////opt/mailman-3.0.0b1/var/data/mailman.db REST root url: http://mailman3.example.com:80/3.0/ REST credentials: yyyyyyyyyyyy:xxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailman start
to start the system, etc.
(mailman3)root@li437-28:/opt/mailman-3.0.0b1# mailman start Starting Mailman's master runner
Cheers,
-Barry
Thank you! That's a great help.
I also came across this useful tutorial: Python Ecosystem - An Introduction http://mirnazim.org/writings/python-ecosystem-introduction/
Next Questions:
- what are the first tests I should perform after starting mailman?
- a tutorial for setting up Posterious?
Thanks again.