[Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

[Terri Oda]

On Aug 31, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> I'd tend to take this as:-
>       * Mailman is a bitch to package
>       * RH have packaged it for a while
>       * RH found a good few of the gotchas in packaging Mailman
>       * RH have subsequently learnt from their mistakes and recently
>         have produced good packages.
>       * Other distros may do better, or may yet have to learn from 
> their
>         mistakes :-)

I believe point number one there says it all. :)

Also, if you're concerned about packaging, you might want to consider 
doing it from source.  It's really not very hard -- Mailman generally 
upgrades easily if you're not going between major revisions.

I've been running it from source on Red Hat, Debian and FreeBSD 
machines for many years now without too many gotchas.  The only one 
that comes to mind was an oddity with the HTML to plaintext conversion 
on our older red hat machine, but it's a really easy fix in the config 
file.

  Terri