[Mailman-Developers] install trouble

[Ron Jarrell]

At 03:20 PM 3/27/02 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> >>>>> "RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
>
>     RJ> Ah, I see what's going on.. configure changed between 2.0.5
>     RJ> and 2.1; in 2.0.5 it just checks "other mail demon" for
>     RJ> possible groups - and at the time I reviewed that, and
>     RJ> realized it'd make the right choice.  in 2.1 it now checks
>     RJ> "mailman other mail demon", which causes it to guess wrong,
>     RJ> because while mailman is the group I want all mailman procs
>     RJ> running under, sendmail runs in a different group...
>
>Yeah, I made this change because it makes Postfix installation much
>easier.  With that MTA, you want your mail programs running under
>user.group mailman, so that default makes the most sense (i.e. a
>simple "configure ; make install" Just Works).
>
>Am I being too biased towards Postfix to the detriment of other MTAs?

Well, I do get the impression that Postfix is the Official MTA of Mailman,
although you're welcome to use one of those *sniff* Other MTA's...