[Systers-dev] dev machine

[Jennifer Redman]

I went ahead and got mailman working on dev.systers.org.  There were a
couple of problems with the install:

1) Sendmail was running not Postfix.  Having 2 MTA's is not good.  We get
VPS installs done by JohnCompanies and sometimes Sendmail gets slipped in.
 You should only have one MTA running and that MTA in the case of Systers
servers is Postfix.

MTA = Mail Transport Agent

If you do a ps -ef and see Sendmail and no Postfix then this is a good
indicator that you need to do something to get Postfix working.  Often this
means turning shutting down Sendmail.

Svaksha actually got this part working

2) There was no initial site list.  This step is actually missing from the
step-by-step instructions.  I've added those instructions to:

http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/step_by_step_system_installation

3) The site list needs to be added to mm_cfg.py  along with the actual
specific domain information -- localhost.localdoman is not going to work on
a public server.  In this case those parameters look like this:

# Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
MTA ='Postfix'
MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'dev-systers-admin'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'dev.systers.org'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'dev.systers.org'

Mailman is now running -- it looks like there may be a problem with the
apache configurations given that no images are appearing on
http://dev.systers.org/mailman/listinfo. (Check that all necessary dirs are
readable by www-data.)

My recommended next step is that those who are working on the install
double-check the step-by-step instructions to make sure everything has been
done according to the instructions.  And if things deviate please make a
note ask questions on the list and we will make sure the instructions are
updated if something is not correct.

I would really appreciate it if everyone made an effort to read the
documentation and follow the documentation, and help improve the
documentation if something is missing. It took me many many hours to write
those instructions -- please use them.

Thanks,
Jen