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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 9/30/20 5:14 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
> We are generally a RHEL or OEL shop. But, from what I've discovered is 
> Debian seems to be the go-to option. Is the Sympa documentation accurate 
> for the Debian install? I haven't found that their documentation is the 
> best. 

If you are used to RHEL, why don't you try the RPM installation:

https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install/install-sympa-distribution-rpm.html

I don't know if this is still true:

Packages for RHEL/CentOS 8 are work in progress.

Sympa is in many aspects superior to Mailman (IMHO).

Regards
        Racke

> 
> Thank you so much for you input. We are trying to move away from Mailman 
> and Sympa seems promising if I could just get it installed! 😃 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@concealed 
> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:12 AM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
> 
> On 9/30/20 4:54 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>> I'm starting from scratch. I'm basically just wanting to feel out what the 
>> community recommends. We have one system running Ubuntu but it just 
>> doesn't seem to be working right. We have to reset our passwords almost 
>> everyday right now. I would just rather rebuild as I think something was 
>> installed incorrectly the first time. 
>>
> 
> The community has several opinions and different infrastructure concerns, 
> so there is no general recommendation.
> 
> Here is the list of what I prefer:
> 
> Distribution: Debian
> Web server: Nginx (faster and more consistent than Apache)
> Database: PostgreSQL (more mature and less surprises than MySQL / MariaDB) 
> Mail server: Exim (but Postfix is fine too)
> 
> Regards
>          Racke
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@concealed 
>> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg 
>> (Racke)
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:52 AM
>> To: address@concealed
>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
>>
>> On 9/30/20 4:42 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>>> Good Morning all,
>>>
>>> Is there anyone out there that has a good step-by-step installation 
>>> for Sympa? All the ones that I have tried are either incomplete or just 
>>> don't work.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> it depends on a couple of things:
>>
>> How do you install it? From sources?
>> Which distribution is installed on your server?
>>
>> Database?
>> MTA?
>> Web server?
>>
>> Regards
>>        Racke
>>
>>
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>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
>>
>>
> 
> 
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> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
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Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.

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