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

Thank you! That helped. Final stretch here... so I go to the webpage and I'm 
getting: 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /sympa on this server. 


Anything come to mind with this? 

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
<address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:12 PM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install

On 9/30/20 9:08 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
> I'm getting stuck with configuring the sendmail part. 
> (https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install/configure-mail-serve
> r-sendmail.html)
> 
> Particularly the alias part. What is the "$SENDMAIL_ALIAS" thing it's 
> talking about? 

These variables are explained here: 
https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/layout.html.

Regards
        Racke

> 
> -----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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