Multiple instances of Mailman on FreeBSD

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Aug 12 19:59:24 UTC 2009


In response to Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org>:

> I'm posting this to both the mailman-users list and the freebsd-ports  
> list.  I realize that not all follow-up will make it to both lists.
> 
> I would like to set up multiple instances of Mailman on a FreeBSD 7- 
> STABLE system with using Postfix.  Looking at the ports Makefile, it  
> appears that if I set MM_DIR=mailman/vhosts/domain-for-this-instance  
> everything should work file (plus add FORCE_PACKAGE_REGISTER allow  
> this second instance to be installed.)

Were it me, I'd add jails to the system.  Then you can install a
separate copy of mailman in each jail.  This will keep them happily
independent of each other.

That's obviously not the only way to get what you want, just my
suggestion.

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Bill Moran
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