On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 22:33:34 +0100 John Poltorak <karotlopj@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm still in my early stages of getting Mailman 3 up and running, and am still not sure how and where it should be installed, but what I've noticed is that the Mailman subdirectory tree gets install in the current directory when running 'mailman list'...
It depends on the configuration where all the directories are placed. By
default, all the configuration/log/queues/locks etc are placed under a single
var directory from where you run the mailman command.
var directory is unique to a running instance (or stopped) instance of
Mailman Core. So, if you go another directory which doesn't have a var
directory, it would create another one and try to start another instance even
if it is running.
This is the default configuration but it would be more sensible to keep the location of these directories constant. There are several different path hierarchy that are predefined and can be used by merely changing the configuration.
See here1 for more details on how to change this and what values are possible.
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj