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<em>Please note that the information on this page may be out of date.</em>
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<a class="ulink" href="http://wiki.list.org/x/bAM"
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>latest installation information</a> on the
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GNU Mailman works on most POSIX-based systems such as <span class="Unix">Unix</span>, MacOSX, or
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GNU/Linux. It does not currently work on Windows. You must have a mail
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server that you can send messages to, and a web server that supports the
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CGI/1.1 API. <a class="ulink" href="http://httpd.apache.org"
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>Apache</a> makes a fine choice for
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web server, and mail servers such as
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<a class="ulink" href="http://www.postfix.org"
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<a class="ulink" href="http://www.exim.org"
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<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sendmail.org"
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<a class="ulink" href="http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html"
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To install Mailman from source, you will need an ANSI C compiler to build
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Mailman's security wrappers. The
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<a class="ulink" href="http://gcc.gnu.org"
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>GNU C compiler gcc</a> works well.
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