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mail/mailman 2.1.39_4 FreeBSD

Mailing list manager with user-friendly web front-end

System
FreeBSD
Repository
FreeBSD ports
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
619c0c67a2
License
GPLv2
Categories
mail
Package size
3905.0 KiB, 33783.1 KiB installed

Description

Paraphrasing the website:

Mailman is a mailing list manager (MLM); that is, software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo, LISTSERV, and the like. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change their preferences via the web. Even a list manager can administer his or her list(s) entirely via the web. Mailman integrates many common MLM features, including web-based archiving (though it also has hooks for external archivers), mail-to-news gateways, bounce handling, spam prevention, Majordomo-style email-based list administration, direct SMTP delivery (with fast bulk mailing), digest delivery, virtual domain support, and more.

Mailman is written mostly in Python (with a smattering of C where necessary for security purposes), and includes hooks to make it easily scriptable and extensible. It is compatible with most web servers and browsers, and most mail transfer agents (mail servers). Mailman's documentation may be found on its website.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
FreeBSDmail/mailman2.1.39_4
OpenBSDmail/mailman2.1.39p1
NetBSDmail/mailman2.1.39
DragonFlymail/mailman2.1.39_4
MidnightBSDmail/mailman2.1.39_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install mailman

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	mailman>0:mail/mailman

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repositoryaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386
FreeBSD:14:latest2.1.39_42.1.39_42.1.39_12.1.39_42.1.39_4
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.1.39_42.1.39_4n/a2.1.39_42.1.39_4
FreeBSD:15:latest2.1.39_42.1.39_4n/a2.1.39_42.1.39_4
FreeBSD:15:quarterly2.1.39_42.1.39_4n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:latest2.1.39_42.1.39_4n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterlyn/an/an/an/an/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 1

Runtime 1

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 30
Run dependencies 23

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: mail_mailman

OptionDefaultDescription
COURIERofffor use with courier
DOCSoffBuild and/or install documentation
EXIM4offfor use with exim4
HTDIGoff- EXPERIMENTAL - htdig integration patches
NAMAZU2offMake private archives searchable with namazu2
NLSoffNative Language Support
NOMAILPWDonElide plaintext passwords from monthly reminders
OPENSMTPDofffor use with opensmtpd - EXPERIMENTAL -
POSTFIXofffor use with postfix
SENDMAILonfor use with sendmail
USES
cpe fakeroot python:2.7 shebangfix tar:tgz
Service scripts
mailman
Conflicts with
ja-mailman-2.1.* mailman*exim* mailman*postfix*

Message after installing

Mailman has been installed, but requires further configuration before use!

You also must configure both your MTA (mail server) and web server to
integrate with Mailman.  If the port's documentation has been installed,
extensive post-installation instructions may be found in:

  /usr/local/share/doc/mailman/FreeBSD-post-install-notes
  /usr/local/share/doc/mailman/mailman-install.txt (start at section 4)

Note (1): 
- ESPECIALLY RELEVANT FOR USERS OF THE BINARY PACKAGE -
The FreeBSD binary package is built for use with Sendmail, and it will
not work properly with alternative MTAs such as Exim or Postfix.
  In order for Mailman to work with an alternative mailer, please use
mailman-exim4 or mailman-postfix instead, or
mailman-exim4-with-htdig or mailman-postfix-with-htdig.
  For use with other mailers (Courier, OpenSMTPd), the port must be installed
from source, with proper options configured, or from a package built in
poudriere (which is a separate port in ports-mgmt) with adapted options.
(poudriere options -cn mail/mailman)

- FOR USERS OF A PORT BUILT FROM SOURCE -
If you use an alternate MTA (meaning "not Sendmail"), you MUST
be sure that the correct value of MAIL_GID was used when this port or
package was built.  You can choose your MTA with the correct MAIL_GID by
running "make config" in the Mailman port's directory.

Note (2):  The entire Mailman installation resides under /usr/local/mailman.
The command-line scripts necessary to administer Mailman have been
installed in /usr/local/mailman/bin.

In order to make private archives searchable with namazu2, you need
to copy or link /usr/local/libexec/namazu.cgi to
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/<ML_name>/ and configure .namazurc.
Refer to /usr/local/etc/namazu/namazurc.sample.

If you did just install mailman with pkg -I, --no-script or
--no-install-scripts, you MUST(!) run the post-install script now, as root:

env "PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local" sh \
    /usr/local/mailman/bin/FreeBSD-post-install x POST-INSTALL

This will set up most defaults (cron jobs, default configuration etc.).

UPDATE INFORMATION FOR UPDATES OF 2.1.18/OLDER TO VERSION 2.1.19 AND NEWER:

  Changed behavior

    - Mailman's log files, request.pck files and heldmsg-* files are no
      longer created world readable to protect against access by untrusted
      local users.  Note that permissions on existing log files won't be
      changed so if you are concerned about this and don't rotate logs or
      have a logrotate process that creates new log files instead of letting
      Mailman create them, you will need to address that.  (LP: #1327404)

The mailman newsyslog.conf(5) filename has been changed:
  OLD: /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/mailman.newsyslog
  NEW: /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/mailman.conf

Any file found at the old location has been automatically moved to
the new location. This was done to ensure log rotation continues to
work after change r340318 made to FreeBSD base, where the default
newsyslog configuration now only includes filenames that end with
'.conf' and do not begin with '.'.

If you use provisioning/configuration management tools to create or
edit this file, you will need to change their configuration to use
the new filename.

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Uses expired lang/python27.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2026-11-01.

Files

pkg-plist 2457
  • @postunexec rm -f %D/%%MMDIR%%/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc
  • @dir etc/newsyslog.conf.d
  • @sample share/examples/mailman/mailman.newsyslog.sample etc/newsyslog.conf.d/mailman.conf
  • %%IMGDIR%%/mailman-large.jpg
  • %%IMGDIR%%/gnu-head-tiny.jpg
  • %%IMGDIR%%/mailman.jpg
  • %%IMGDIR%%/mm-icon-large.ico
  • %%IMGDIR%%/mm-icon.ico
  • %%IMGDIR%%/mm-icon.png
  • %%IMGDIR%%/powerlogo.png
  • %%IMGDIR%%/PythonPowered.png
  • @group
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Autoresponder.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Autoresponder.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncer.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncer.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/AOL.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/AOL.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Caiwireless.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Caiwireless.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Compuserve.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Compuserve.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Exchange.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Exchange.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Exim.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Exim.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/GroupWise.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/GroupWise.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/LLNL.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/LLNL.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Microsoft.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Microsoft.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Netscape.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Netscape.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Postfix.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Postfix.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Qmail.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Qmail.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SMTP32.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SMTP32.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleMatch.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleMatch.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleWarning.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleWarning.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Sina.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Sina.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Yahoo.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Yahoo.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Yale.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/Yale.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/__init__.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Bouncers/__init__.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/CSRFcheck.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/CSRFcheck.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/Auth.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/Auth.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/__init__.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/__init__.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/admin.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/create.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/create.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/htdig.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/htdig.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/mmsearch.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/options.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/options.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/private.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/private.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/roster.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/roster.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.pyc
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Commands/__init__.py
  • %%MMDIR%%/Mailman/Commands/__init__.pyc

The first 100 are listed.

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Master sites 3
  • GNU
  • SF/mailman/Mailman%202.1%20%28stable%29/${PORTVERSION}
  • https://launchpad.net/mailman/${DISTVERSION:R}/2.1.39/+download/

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
619c0c67a2 Olivier Cochard */*: Deprecate python2 consumers
lang/python2 and lang/python27 have been deprecated since 2020-01-01 and their EXPIRATION_DATE of 2020-12-31 passed nearly six years. Set the same expiration date on the remaining python:2.7 consumers so that python2 and python27 can be removed on 2026-11-01 The date was chosen to fall after the 2026Q4 branch is created, so that the removal happens on main only and the quarterly branch keeps python2 for its full lifetime. Approved by: portmgr