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3.1 Run <b class="program">configure</b></A>
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Before you can install Mailman, you must run <b class="program">configure</b> to set
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various installation options your system might need.
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<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
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Take special note of the <b class="programopt">--with-mail-gid</b> and
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<b class="programopt">--with-cgi-gid</b> options below. You will probably need to use
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You should <strong>not</strong> be root while performing the steps in this section.
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Do them under your own login, or whatever account you typically use to install
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software. You do not need to do these steps as user <code>mailman</code>, but you
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could. However, make sure that the login used is a member of the
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<code>mailman</code> group as that that group has write permissions to the
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<var>$prefix</var> directory made in the previous step. You must also have
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permission to create a setgid file in the file system where it resides (NFS
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and other mounts can be configured to inhibit setgid settings).
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If you've installed other GNU software, you should be familiar with the
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<b class="program">configure</b> script. Usually you can just <b class="program">cd</b> to the
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directory you unpacked the Mailman source tarball into, and run
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<b class="program">configure</b> with no arguments:
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<div class="verbatim"><pre>
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% cd mailman-<version>
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The following options allow you to customize your Mailman
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--prefix</b>=<var>dir</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Standard GNU configure option which changes the base directory that
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Mailman is installed into. By default <var>$prefix</var> is
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<span class="file">/usr/local/mailman</span>. This directory must already exist, and be set
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up as described in <A href="create-install-dir.html#create-install-dir">2.2</A>.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--exec-prefix</b>=<var>dir</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Standard GNU configure option which lets you specify a different
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installation directory for architecture dependent binaries.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-var-prefix</b>=<var>dir</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Store mutable data under <var>dir</var> instead of under the <var>$prefix</var> or
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<var>$exec_prefix</var>. Examples of such data include the list archives and
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list settings database.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-python</b>=<span class="file">/path/to/python</span></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify an alternative Python interpreter to use for the wrapper programs.
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The default is to use the interpreter found first on your shell's
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-username</b>=<var>username-or-uid</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify a different username than <code>mailman</code>. The value of this
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option can be an integer user id or a user name. Be sure your
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<var>$prefix</var> directory is owned by this user.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-groupname</b>=<var>groupname-or-gid</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify a different groupname than <code>mailman</code>. The value of this
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option can be an integer group id or a group name. Be sure your
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<var>$prefix</var> directory is group-owned by this group.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-mail-gid</b>=<var>group-or-groups</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify an alternative group for running scripts via the mail wrapper.
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<var>group-or-groups</var> can be a list of one or more integer group ids or
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symbolic group names. The first value in the list that resolves to an
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existing group is used. By default, the value is the list <code>mailman</code>,
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<code>other</code>, <code>mail</code>, and <code>daemon</code>.
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<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
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This is highly system dependent and you must get this right, because the
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group id is compiled into the mail wrapper program for added security. On
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systems using <b class="program">sendmail</b>, the <span class="file">sendmail.cf</span> configuration
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file designates the group id of <b class="program">sendmail</b> processes using the
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<var>DefaultUser</var> option. (If commented out, it still may be indicating
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Check your mail server's documentation and configuration files to find the
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right value for this switch.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-cgi-gid</b>=<var>group-or-groups</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify an alternative group for running scripts via the CGI wrapper.
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<var>group-or-groups</var> can be a list of one or more integer group ids or
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symbolic group names. The first value in the list that resolves to an
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existing group is used. By default, the value is the the list
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<code>www</code>, <code>www-data</code>, and <code>nobody</code>.
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<div class="note"><b class="label">Note:</b>
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The proper value for this is dependent on your web server configuration.
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You must get this right, because the group id is compiled into the CGI
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wrapper program for added security, and no Mailman CGI scripts will run if
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If you're using Apache, check the values for the <var>Group</var> option in
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your <span class="file">httpd.conf</span> file.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-cgi-ext</b>=<var>extension</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify an extension for cgi-bin programs. The CGI wrappers placed in
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<span class="file"><var>$prefix</var>/cgi-bin</span> will have this extension (some web servers
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require an extension). <var>extension</var> must include the leading dot.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-mailhost</b>=<var>hostname</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify the fully qualified host name part for outgoing email. After the
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installation is complete, this value can be overriden in
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<span class="file"><var>$prefix</var>/Mailman/mm_cfg.py</span>.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-urlhost</b>=<var>hostname</var></STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Specify the fully qualified host name part of urls. After the
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installation is complete, this value can be overriden in
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<span class="file"><var>$prefix</var>/Mailman/mm_cfg.py</span>.
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<DT><STRONG><b class="programopt">--with-gcc</b>=no</STRONG></DT>
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<DD>Don't use gcc, even if it is found. In this case, <b class="program">cc</b> must be
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