Larry,
Thank you for your helpful reply.
Although not enthusiastic about it I have decided to follow your advice as well as Mark's and just install a new version of Mailman. I was trying to save myself sometime but considering the explanations both of you have provided I believe it is better to just face the extra work and avoid Apple's version.
Now that I now I can simply install it on a new directory that will not conflict with the existing version things should be much simpler.
Thank you again for your reply and help with this issue.
Best regards,
Joe
On 4/18/11 4:28 AM, "Larry Stone" lstone19@stonejongleux.com wrote:
On 4/18/11 1:53 AM, JRC Groups at joemailgroups@gmail.com wrote:
I have read the page and also contacted Larry Stone. His instructions are for installation on OS X client and not OS X Server. I haven't found instructions on how to remove the Mailman version bundled by Apple with OS X Server. One of my concerns is that Apple's version and the downloaded version would both have several (if not all) files installed as default in the same location and this could lead to potential conflicts.
With some more thought than my quick private reply to you last night, I don't think this is an issue. IIRC, you choose where to install Mailman and I believe it is self-contained in that directory. My latest instructions (for Snow Leopard) suggest /usr/local/mailman but previous versions suggested /Applications/mailman (and if you wanted to, you could call it something like /usr/local/my_private_copy_of_mailman_which_does_not_conflict_with_Apples which is inelegant but would work and I'm pretty sure really does not conflict :-) ). So long as the directory you pick does not exist, then you will not be at risk of a conflict. You would, of course, have to change that name throughout my instructions but that is trivial.
The instructions do call for modifying some configuration files of other software (Postfix and Apache) but those files are intended to be user-modifiable and Apple provided updates should not be overriding your mofications.