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Customize Mailman
You should do these steps using the account you installed Mailman under in section 2 above.- The file
$prefix/Mailman/Defaults.pycontains a number of defaults for your installation. If any of these are incorrect, override them in$prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, NOT INDefaults.py! See the comments inDefaults.pyfor details. Once a list is created, editing many of these variables will have no effect (you need to configure your lists through the web admin interface or through the command line scriptbin/config_list).Specifically check to make sure the variables DEFAULT_HOST_NAME and DEFAULT_URL are correct. The latter must end in a slash.
The install process will not overwrite an existing
mm_cfg.pyfile so you can freely make changes to this file.Note: Do not change HOME_DIR or MAILMAN_DIR. These are set automatically by the configure script.
- Create the site password using:
$prefix/bin/mmsitepass your-site-password
This password can be used anywhere that individual user or mailing list administrator passwords are required, giving the mailman site administrator the ability to adjust these things when necessary.