Mailman installs but does not work

Moriah

I just installed the latest Mailman on my email/web server box, but I cannot bring up any of the mailman web pages, and I cannot get the email interface to work either. The installation itself went fine with a simple emerge. I then followed the instructions at the gentoo wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mailman#Installing

I am running sendmail 8.14.0 and apache 2.0.58-r2

The web pages come up:

di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

Sounds to me like there is a configuration problem with Apache. Start by checking your error_log in /var/log/apache (YMMV) to see why it's dying.

I can't really help you with Sendmail as I've only used MM with Exim and Postfix.

Let's get your web interface up and running and we'll tackle Sendmail after that. Personally I'd move to
something like Exim or Postfix as at least their config files are in english and not the
sendmail.cf file which _really_ scares me

-m

Moriah · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

Well, I've been running sendmail here for over 12 years now, and on all the machines on the network here, so I really am not a bit inclined to change it now.

Anyway, regarding the web interface, document root is not it the usual (now anyway) gentoo place at /var/www/... but it is instead at /home/httpd/... where it was many long years ago before I switched to gentoo. Again, the pain of switching all that legacy stuff prevents me from changing it.

Nonetheless, I could not find the mailman starting web page file anywhere in my filesystem, as I did an updatedb (250 gb filesystem... Whew!) and then a locate to look for it, and it does not appear to be anywhere. I fiddled with it for a couple of hours, then had to get ready to go out of town.

I am now 400 miles away, but I have vnc via ssh connected to things back home, so I can do just about anything short of a reboot or firewall reconfiguration or mess with routing tables. If youy can suggest where I should look for the missing mailman startup page, that might be a good place to begin.

Thanks!

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di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

If I recall correctly the Mailman pages are all Python generated. Adding the following to your
Apache configuration should take care of it:

Moriah · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:37 am Post subject:

Well, the aliases resulted in

di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

Not sure about that one....Is it coming from Apache or Sendmail ?

-m

Moriah · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

I am not where I can get to the log files right now, but I think it was from squerrel mail to syslog. I will check tonight and get back to you.

Thanks for the help!
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semen · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 29

I had the problem that I could not acces to mailmain website.
I saw in apache log file attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/

and did not understand what it mean until I did try the subdirectory http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman.

than works fine.
my mistake was that I meant http://www.example.com/mailman/ works also, but did not

timeBandit · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Networking & Security.
Not a Portage problem, so moved here.
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