On 5/29/2020 2:16 PM, Iain Harrison via Mailman-Users wrote:

I don't understand what the problem is, but following instructions I can find anywhere on the web leave me with a setup that simply doesn't work.

Understanding the problems, or at least describing them here, would go a long way. (which instructions were used?)

With Debian, it should be a simple matter of "sudo apt-get install packagename" but that certainly isn't the case for Mailman!

OK, it's installed. You still have to _configure_ it. (did apt-get not _install_ mailman? It certainly won't configure the packages, nor should it.)

Note that once you have the source code, only two commands are required to _install_ mailman2- ./configure and make.

see https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/index.html section 3

Now I'm looking for an alternative way to run mailing lists. Can anyone suggest either a good alternative, or a way to get Mailman 3 to install?

Get off debian, use postfix & apache, and install MM2 or MM3. I've installed MM2 from source multiple times on FreeBSD* and had it available in probably under an hour.

*postfix and apache already installed and running

see also https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mailman-with-postfix... which may not

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