hello!

i am setting up mailman 3.0 on ubuntu 12.04. but getting errors when i try to work with mailman through the python interpreter. i hope this is the correct list to post to.

here are the steps i took:

• installed mailman 3.0.0.b1 in a fresh virtualenv
• install is happy, all tests pass (Total: 383 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 3 minutes 27.980 seconds.)
• default mailman.cfg file, stored in top level mailman dir (eg, it's a sibling to the bin/ directory)
• basic postfix config, as descibed here: http://packages.python.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/MTA.html#postfix
• start mailman with bin/mailman start (no errors to be seen)

then i go to follow the example on how to create new mailing lists: http://packages.python.org/mailman/src/mailman/commands/docs/create.html

but attempting to import mailman packages fails, so it seems the python packages aren't installed? so i run python setup.py install in main mailman directory. after that, the imports work, but i get an error at the point of trying to call command.process(FakeArgs) as described on the create page. the error is as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/jessykate/virtualenvs/mailman/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mailman-3.0.0b1-py2.7.egg/mailman/commands/cli_lists.py", line 180, in process else system_preferences.preferred_language.code) File "/home/jessykate/virtualenvs/mailman/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mailman-3.0.0b1-py2.7.egg/mailman/core/constants.py", line 53, in preferred_language return getUtility(ILanguageManager)[config.mailman.default_language] File "/home/jessykate/virtualenvs/mailman/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zope.component-3.12.1-py2.7.egg/zope/component/_api.py", line 169, in getUtility raise ComponentLookupError(interface, name) zope.interface.interfaces.ComponentLookupError: (<InterfaceClass mailman.interfaces.languages.ILanguageManager>, '')

FWIW, i have also installed the postorius interface and all seems to work from this approach. i can even verify that the mailing list i created through the postorius interface shows up when i issue bin/mailman lists.

any idea on how to fix this error? am i missing something? i tried a few other of the instruction pages in the 3.0 docs and all generated errors of some kind. so perhaps i'm just not importing/installing the packages properly?

any help greatly appreciated. thanks,

Jessy http://jessykate.com