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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
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Copyright (C) 1998-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
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GNU/Linux seems to be the most popular platform on which to run
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Mailman. Here are some hints on getting Mailman to run on Linux:
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If you are getting errors with hard link creations and/or you are using
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a special secure kernel (securelinux/openwall/grsecurity), see
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contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity.
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Note that if you are using Linux Mandrake in secure mode, you are probably
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Apparently Mandrake 9.0 changed the permissions on gcc, so if you
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build as the mailman user, you need to be sure mailman is in the
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Note that if you installed Python from your Linux distribution's
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package manager (e.g. .rpms for Redhat-derived systems or .deb for
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Debian), you must install the `development' package of Python, or
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you may not get everything you need.
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For example, using Python 2.2 on Debian, you will need to install
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the python2.2-dev package. On Redhat, you probably need the
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python2-devel package.
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If you install Python from source, you should be fine.
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One symptom of this problem, although for unknown reasons, is that
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you might get an error such as this during your install:
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Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "bin/update", line 44, in ?
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ImportError: No module named paths
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make: *** [update] Error 1
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If this happens, install the Python development package and try
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"configure ; make install" again.
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This problem can manifest itself in other Linux distributions in
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different ways, although usually it appears as ImportErrors.