Ezmanage Installation Documentation: Quickstart

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Copyright (C) 1998 Tommi Virtanen

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Installation for Debian GNU/Linux platforms

1. Install the ezmanage Debian package (ezmanage_n.n.deb), and all packages it depends on.
2. Configure your WWW server to handle requests to your chosen address as your chosen user (for Apache, see suexec). I suggest you use http://lists.example.com/ for lists located at listname@lists.example.com, and http://www.example.com/~user/lists/ for lists located at user-lists-listname@example.com.
   Note: Anyone who can access these CGI-scripts can do anything they like with your lists - you wouldn't want to provide spam services to unknown people, would you? Heavy use of SSL, IP-based restrictions and firewalling are suggested.
3. Run (or create suitable wrappers for later use by list owners)
   $ EZDOTQMAIL=~/.qmail-lists- EZPREFIX=user-lists- ./ezmanage-skeleton user@example.com
   for lists located at user-lists-listname@example.com, or
   $ EZDOTQMAIL=~/.qmail- EZHOST=lists.example.com EZPREFIX='' ./ezmanage-skeleton postmaster@example.com
   for lists located at listname@lists.example.com (in both cases, run the command as the user who will own the lists, and in the latter case, add lists.example.com:user in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains).

   Reading the pod in ezmanage-skeleton might come handy (do perldoc ezmanage-skeleton).

4. Check that ~/.ezmanage/config/* looks good.

Using

1. Point your browser to the URL you configured in your WWW server.
2. Type a name for a new list, press "New list".
3. Configure your new list.

Letting People Subscribe

• The lists can be reached at user-lists-listname@domain (or, listname@virtualdomain, or some variation thereof), and they are just normal ezmlm-idx lists.
• You can let other access ezmanage-websub.cgi, and use a WWW interface to subscribe themselves to the list. All actions will be confirmed by mail, so it is as secure as native ezmlm-idx.

Comments to Tommi.Virtanen@havoc.fi.