Mailman3

Installing Mailman3 on Debian stable

gather around for I have to tell you,
a tale of trial and error,
of how a brave sysadmin one day had to do
the config of despair and terror. 

rra 

Good to have links

• Official MM3 documentation (barely helpful)
• User-made instructions for Ubuntu (helpful)

Update repos and install packages

Install a webserver and your database backend:

$ sudo apt install nginx mariadb

Then install mailman3 and mailman3-web

$ sudo apt install mailman3 mailman3-web --no-install-recommmends

The first package contains all the backend stuff, whilst mailman3-web contains hyperkitty and postorious web interfaces.

You will get prompted about autoconfiguring database backends, accept that for now. We can change it later.

You will find all the necessary config files in /etc/mailman3 and all the