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["Pinson, Brian" <address@concealed>]

I'm getting stuck with configuring the sendmail part. 
(https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install/configure-mail-server-sendmail.html)

Particularly the alias part. What is the "$SENDMAIL_ALIAS" thing it's talking 
about? 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
<address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:52 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install

On 9/30/20 5:48 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
> Wish me luck! Going to try the RPM. 
> 

Let us know how it goes ... maybe you can suggest improvements to the 
documentation if you find it unclear or missing useful information.

Good luck

    Racke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@concealed 
> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of David Verdin
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:25 AM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
> 
> Another point of attention: The distribution has no impact on Sympa 
> administration. Around 45 % of installs are under Redhat (or Fedora, 
> centos, etc.), 45 % under Debian (or Ubuntu and the like) and most of 
> the 10% remaining are FreeBSD.
> 
> The only impact of distribution is which Sympa version is packaged.
> 
> About it, Soji maintains the RPM, so RedHat can always have the latest 
> version packaged, but you need to set up the dedicated repository. I 
> don't know how it works for Debian if you want the latest version 
> packaged. It seems that current version in Debian is something like
> 6.2.40 which is good enough.
> 
> Personally, I always install from sources, so I don't care and use 
> Ubuntu servers.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> David
> 
> On 30/09/2020 17:14, 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.
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
>>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
>>


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