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[Colas Nahaboo <address@concealed>]

Just a warning on the linux distribution packages I tried 2 months ago:

• Ubuntu doesn't work (archiving doesn't work) and has not been maintained for 2 years.
  
• Debian works nicely, and updates sympa versions.
  
• RHEL is not  useful. It just copies files, but do not attempt to really install things (no database setup, no integration with the mail system, ...) and I don't think it will be of any use for upgrading.

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 23:02, Pinson, Brian <address@concealed> wrote:

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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> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
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