[Mailman-Users] Looking for professional help

[James Dinkel]

Why does there need to be a patch to mailman?  Could you just setup 
htdig and have it index the pipermail web pages?

James Dinkel

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Brian Carpenter wrote:
>   
>> My installation of mailman is on a Linux box running cPanel/WHM. The
>> os is CentOS 4.4. It is not an apple machine. It seems to me that
>> the patch is looking for a Defaults.py.in file, which I don't have.
>> I could be wrong however in interpreting the error message.
>>     
>
> I don't know much about the ht:dig patch, but it does appear from a
> cursory reading of it's docs[1] that it is meant to be applied to a
> Mailman *source* tree, not to an already installed Mailman.
>
> You may be able to force this to apply to the cPanel version of
> mailman, but you'd face an uphill battle I'm sure.  See FAQ 6.11[2]
> regarding cPanel.  There is a source dir on cPanel, the last time I
> looked.  But it differs in numerous ways from the official Mailman
> install.
>
> (Someone out there may be interested in doing this work for pay,
> though I'm not one of them.  My experience with cPanel is
> intentionally limited.  I found it incredibly annoying to have to
> track down change after change that they'd made to the various parts
> of the system.)
>
> [1] http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/444884/install.html
> [2] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.011.htp
>
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