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The mailman Portfile 51955 2009-06-07 10:04:10Z arthurk macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: mailman
Version: 2.1.12
Category: mail
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager
Long Description: Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Homepage: http://www.list.org/
Master Sites: sourceforge
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Platform: darwin

depends_lib port:python25

# Create a startupitem
startupitem.create yes
startupitem.start "${prefix}/share/mailman/bin/mailman.init start"
startupitem.stop "${prefix}/share/mailman/bin/mailman.init stop"

# Mailman installation directories
set execdir ${prefix}/libexec/${name}
set sharedir ${prefix}/share/${name}
set datadir ${prefix}/var/${name}
set docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
set confdir ${prefix}/etc/httpd

# Mailman user/group name
set mmuser mailman
set mmgroup mailman

# CGI group name (should match apache Portfile)
set cgigroup www

Patch Files: patch-Defaults.py.in patch-mm_cfg.py.dist.in

configure.pre_args --exec-prefix=${execdir} --prefix=${sharedir} --with-var-prefix=${datadir}

configure.args --with-username=${mmuser} --with-groupname=${mmgroup} --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} --with-cgi-gid=${cgigroup} --with-cgi-ext=.cgi --without-permcheck --with-python=${prefix}/bin/python2.5

pre-destroot {
addgroup ${mmgroup}
adduser ${mmuser} gid=[existsgroup ${mmgroup}]
xinstall -d -m 02775 -o root -g ${mmgroup} ${destroot}${execdir}
xinstall -d -m 02775 -o root -g ${mmgroup} ${destroot}${sharedir}
xinstall -d -m 02775 -o ${mmuser} -g ${mmgroup} ${destroot}${datadir}
}
post-destroot {
# Create dummy files to retain empty directory tree
xinstall -d -m 02775 ${destroot}${datadir}/lists/.turd
system "find ${destroot}${datadir} -type d -empty | xargs -n1 -I% touch %/.turd"

# Cleanup permissions & ownership
foreach dir [exec find ${destroot}${sharedir} -type d ! -perm 02775] {
ui_info "${dir}: setting permissions to 02775"
file attributes $dir -permissions 02775
}

# Install startup script
xinstall -d -m 0755 ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/rc.d
system "ln -s ../../../[strsed ${sharedir} "g|^${prefix}/||"]/scripts/mailman ${destroot}${prefix}/share/mailman/bin/mailman.init"

# Install Apache configuration file
xinstall -d -m 0755 ${destroot}${confdir}
xinstall -m 0644 ${filespath}/${name}.conf.in ${destroot}${confdir}/${name}.conf
reinplace "s| EXECDIR |${execdir}|" ${destroot}${confdir}/${name}.conf
reinplace "s| DATADIR |${datadir}|" ${destroot}${confdir}/${name}.conf
reinplace "s| SHAREDIR |${sharedir}|" ${destroot}${confdir}/${name}.conf
reinplace "s| CONFDIR |${confdir}|" ${destroot}${sharedir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist ${destroot}${sharedir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

# Install documentation files
xinstall -d -m 0755 ${destroot}${docdir}
foreach file [glob ${worksrcpath}/\[A-IN-Z\]*] {
xinstall -m 0644 ${file} ${destroot}${docdir}
}

# Check installation under destroot
system "cd ${destroot}${sharedir} && DESTDIR=${destroot} PYTHONPATH=.:./pythonlib ./bin/check_perms"
}

post-install {
# Notify the user what needs to be done after installation
ui_msg "------------------------------------------------------------"
ui_msg "Be sure to verify the email and URL host settings in the"
ui_msg "Mailman configuration file (they may have been guessed"
ui_msg "incorrectly during the configuration step):"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg " ${sharedir}/Mailman/mm_cfg.py"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg "Be sure to add the following line to your Apache httpd.conf"
ui_msg "configuration file to enable Mailman web access:"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg " Include ${confdir}/${name}.conf"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg "Be sure to setup the crontab entries for the '${mmuser}'"
ui_msg "user. Mailman runs a number of cron jobs for its basic"
ui_msg "functionality."
ui_msg " "
ui_msg " cd ${sharedir}/cron"
ui_msg " sudo crontab -u ${mmuser} crontab.in"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg "Also, be sure to read the following files for details"
ui_msg "on creating your site-wide list, setting your site and"
ui_msg "list creator passwords, and creating your first list:"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg " ${docdir}/INSTALL"
ui_msg " ${docdir}/README"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg "Finally, either restart your system to start up the"
ui_msg "Mailman queue runner, or use the following to start"
ui_msg "it running immediately:"
ui_msg " "
ui_msg " sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mailman.plist"
ui_msg "------------------------------------------------------------"
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/mailman
%  sudo port install mailman  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching mailman
--->  Verifying checksum for mailman
--->  Extracting mailman
--->  Configuring mailman
--->  Building mailman with target all

--->  Staging mailman into destroot

--->  Installing mailman

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using mailman with these commands:

%  man mailman
%  apropos mailman
%  which mailman
%  locate mailman

 Where to find more information: