On 3/12/21 7:36 PM, John Covici wrote:
Hi. I am having a great deal of difficulty installing mailman3 using gentoo and sendmail. Also, I want to upgrade my old mailman2 data to mailman3.
What I have done so far is to install the mailman3 packages from my repository and got this: django-mailman3 version 1.3.4, mailmanclient version 3.3.1, mailman version 3.3.2 (apparently the core), postorius version 1.3.3 and hyperkitty version 1.3.3. I also have mariadb and postgresql already installed.
Are these gentoo packages? If so, I have no idea how they are configured.
Now trying to read your documentation, it seems it wants me to reinstall some packages using pip in the home directory of the mailman user in a python virtual environment, that was the first thing. But I would like to avoid multiple package managers wherever possible -- gentoo is already a lot of maintainance without dealing with pip's maintainance. The binaries also seem to be different from my gentoo packages.
Our documantation generally covers installing from source. If you are installing gentoo packages, you should be looking at gentoo docs and going to gentoo for help.
We recommend installing Mailman and the web components in a virtualenv, but it is not a requirement. We also suggest that postgresql is a better choice than MariaDB.
So, how do I proceed with getting mailman3 up and working, configuring the database, configs, etc and I guess after doing that upgrading mailman2 and getting sendmail to interface properly with mailman3?
Importing lists from Mailman 2 is done with the mailman import21
command. See
<https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/import.html>.
Importing archives is done with the Django management
hyperkitty_import command. See
<https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/hyperkitty/en/latest/install.html#importing-the-current-archives>
For sendmail, see <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.html#sendmail>
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