If the sysadmin is willing to help you then there is no reason for it not to work.

You'll need their help for three things:

• Have them setup a user and group both named mailman. Then you can login as the user mailman and do the install.
• Setup the cgi aliases in Apache's config file for /mailman and /pipermail
• Setup a secondary system mail "aliases" file that user mailman has rights to modify.

Now whenever you login as the user mailman, you can create/modify/delete mailing lists on the server.

Note: you can do the install using your own userid/group by setting those switches during the ./configure step of the installation. I don't recommend this though, and it will all work out nicer if the sysadmin agrees to a second user named mailman.

Note2: you might also need sysadmin help in determining what GID your server's MTA uses, and what GID your server's web server uses. You might also need the sysadmin to allow Mailman's wrapper program to be run by the MTA (if they use smrsh or some other limiting application).

Good Luck!

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 20:02, Jeff Shipman wrote:

I'm currently using a webhoster and I have an account on their machines. They're using FreeBSD and they use majordomo for their mailing lists. I really don't like majordomo and I don't find it to be very flexible. They're considering mailman, but getting them to install it will probably take forever. I was hoping there would be some way for me to install it locally to my home directory and just use it for my lists. Plus, if they want to use it, they'll need to be flexible in letting others do their own mailing lists. I notice places like SourceForge have this feature where each project can set up their own lists.

Is there a way I can install Mailman in my account without root privs or is there minimal root privs things that I could just ask them to do? They said they'd be willing to help me out with the system stuff, but I don't want anything to conflict with their current system.

Also, I have my own domain name that all of my email goes to. I don't know if that helps in the setup or not.

Thanks in advance!

Jeff "Shippy" Shipman E-Mail: shippy@nmt.edu Computer Science Major ICQ: 1786493 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy

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