[Mailman-Users] Mailman in a webhotel? I need some guidance in configuring the thing...

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:07 PM +0200 12/10/06, Ralf Strandell wrote:

>  1) Can I install Mailman without root access?

Not so far as I know.  You could do it at a site where they give you 
full administrator access to a virtual machine, however.

>  2) How do I configure Mailman to be secure? What are the best practices
>  (group ownerships etc) for hosted installations?

Your webhotel service would have to install Mailman, and they would 
need to be the ones to do the Mailman site administration functions. 
Once they've created the lists, they could leave most of the 
administration tasks up to you, however.  Of course, you would still 
need to depend on them for anything that requires access to the logs 
or priviledged access to the command-line functions, etc....

>  3) Could you please lead me to the relevant documentation...

I'm not sure that there is any relevant documentation for this 
particular configuration.  There is some partially relevant 
information found at 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.024.htp>, 
and you may find other FAQ Wizard entries that are also useful.

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