I've just spent most of an entire evening trying to understand where Mailman (i.e., the scripts that build Mailman - configure & make - and Mailman itself) gets its identity from. I'm attempting to install Mailman on the host charlie. charlie is the web host for pretorious.net and funkymonkeybutt.com. A reverse-DNS lookup of charlie's IP address will return pretorious.net. Mailman will only be accessible via www.funkymonkey.com (once I get it installed and configured correctly).

I've tried modifying the 'www' and 'url' values of configure and configure.in

I've tried passing --host and --target to ./configure

I've tried modifying Mailman/mm_cfg.py

...and nothing seems to work in a predictable manner. _Sometimes_ the values that the cgi scripts return (via HTTP) contain the hostname 'charlie' and _sometimes_ they contain one of the values set using the methods listed above. e.g., If I use hostname www.funkymonkeybutt.com to temporarily set the hostname env value, make begins using pretorious.net instead of charlie. And Mailman pretty much ignores the Mailman/mm_cfg.py values.

Everyone seems to talk about Mailman like it practically installs itself and then goes about laying golden eggs. What could possibly be causing me to be the only person on this list with basic installation?

-- Eric P. Los Gatos, CA