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<h3>Requirements</h3>
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You must have a mail server (MTA) that you can send messages to, and a
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web server that supports the CGI/1.1 API.
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<a href="http://httpd.apache.org">Apache</a> makes a fine choice
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for web server, and MTAs such as
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<a href="http://www.postfix.org">Postfix</a>,
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<a href="http://www.exim.org">Exim</a>,
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<a href="http://www.sendmail.org">Sendmail</a>, and
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<a href="http://www.qmail.org">qmail</a>
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should work just fine.
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<p>You will need an ANSI C compiler to build Mailman's security
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<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GNU C compiler</a>
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gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work
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<a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>
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interpreter installed somewhere on your system. Currently Python 2.1
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or newer is required, with Python 2.3.3 being recommended. Mailman
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should work with latest patch release on any Python branch from 2.1 to
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2.3, which as of this writing (31-Dec-2003) is
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<a href="http://www.python.org/2.1.3/">Python 2.1.3</a>,
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<a href="http://www.python.org/2.2.3/">Python 2.2.3</a>, and
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<a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.3/">Python 2.3.3</a>.
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Mailman is available from the following sources:
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103">SourceForge</a>
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<li><a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/">GNU</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz">List.Org</a>
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<em>If you're using a command line FTP client, be sure to set the mode
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to binary</em>. Once you've downloaded the source tarball, you can
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unpack it with the following commands:
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% tar zxf mailman.tar.gz
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Note that the file name may have the version number in it,
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e.g. <code>mailman-2.1.tar.gz</code>.
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<p>Mailman's tarball unpacks into a directory called
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<code>mailman-xyz</code> where <em>xyz</em> is the version number.
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Note also that some versions of <code>tar</code> don't accept the
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<em>z</em> option. In that case, you'll need to use the
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<code>gunzip</code> program like so:
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% gunzip -c mailman.tar.gz | tar xf -
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