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This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on Mailman 3's web ui. If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. It has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04.
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In order to download the components necessary you need to have the Bazaar VCS installed on your system. Mailman and mailman.client need at least Python version 2.6. {{{#!wiki warning
'''This guide is obsolete! Look for other [[ http://mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html | guide ]] to setup mailman3.'''
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== GNU Mailman 3 ==
First download the latest revision of Mailman 3 from launchpad.
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This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on [[DEV/Web Interface|Postorius, Mailman 3's web UI]] (and, in the process, install the core Mailman engine and Mailman.client as well). If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04 and OS X 10.8.1.  Please note that the Python provided by apple for OSX ''will not work''; you need to install your own version of python (e.g. using fink or macports). The [[../Mac Mailman development setup guide|Mac Mailman development setup guide]] has instructions using homebrew if you need additional instructions.

Also, this 5-minute guide will not help you install HyperKitty, the web-based list archiver; for that, see [[https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/wiki/DevelopmentSetupGuide|this guide]].

== Set up your environment ==

Install the essentials

{{{$ sudo apt-get install bzr python-dev python-virtualenv build-essential postfix}}}

Set up a virtual environment (here we're calling it "postorius").

Get the sources
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$ bzr branch lp:mailman
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(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:postorius
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:~mailman-coders/postorius/postorius_standalone}}}
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Install and test: If you get permission errors on this step, your ssh key is probably not in sync with what is on launchpad.net.


== Set up sources ==

=== GNU Mailman 3 ===
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$ cd mailman 
$ python bootstrap.py
$
bin/mailman
$ bin/te
st
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(postorius)$ cd mailman 
(postorius)$ python setup.py install}}}
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$ bin/mailman start
$ cd ..
(postorius)$ mailman start
(postorius)$ cd ..
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At this point Mailman will not send nor receive any real emails. But that's fine as long as you only want to work on the components related to the ReST client or the web ui. At this point Mailman will not send nor receive any real emails. But that's fine as long as you only want to work on the components related to the ReST client or the web ui.
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== mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API) ==
Download from launchpad:
=== mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API) ===
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$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client (postorius)$ cd mailman.client
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..}}}

=== Postorius ===

{{{
(postorius)$ cd postorius
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..}}}

== Start the development server ==

{{{
(postorius)$ cd postorius_standalone
(postorius)$ python manage.py syncdb
(postorius)$ python manage.py runserver
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Install in development mode to be able to change the code without working directly on the PYTHONPATH. == Profit! ==
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{{{
$ cd mailman.client
$ (sudo) python setup.py develop
$ cd ..
}}}

== Django >= 1.3 ==
The web ui is a pluggable Django application. Therefore you need to have Django (at least version 1.3) installed.

{{{
$ wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3.1/tarball/ -O Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzf Django-1.3.1.tar.gz
$ cd Django-1.3.1
$ python setup.py install
$ cd ..
}}}

== mailman-django ==
This Django app contains the code for the web ui. Thanks go out to Anna Granudd and Benedict Stein who started this app as part of their Google Summer of Code projects in 2010 and 2011.

We're currently transitioning the code from the branches we used for GSoC to an 'official' web ui location on launchpad to continue the work there. For now the latest working code can be found here (this will change within the next days...):

{{{
$ bzr branch lp:~flo-fuchs/mailmanwebgsoc2011/transition
}}}

Install it, also in development mode:

{{{
$ cd transition
$ (sudo) python setup.py develop
$ cd ..
}}}

== Setup a simple Django project to host the web ui ==
The last thing you need to set up is a Django site to host the web ui application. This sample project contains all necessary settings to get the application up and running using Django's development server:

{{{
$ bzr branch lp:~flo-fuchs/mailmanweb/django_dev_setup
}}}

Now change to the branch dir, let Django create a db file and start the dev server:

{{{
$ cd django_dev_setup
$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py runserver
}}}

Now direct your browser to: [[http://localhost:8000]]

== Logging in ==
Authentication against the ReST API is not yet implemented, but there's a dummy AuthBackend in mailman-django that mimics auth behaviour. To login use the credentials hard-coded in:

{{{
./transition/src/mailman_django/auth/restbackend.py
}}}
Now go to [[http://localhost:8000|http://localhost:8000]] to see the web UI for mailman!

This guide is obsolete! Look for other guide to setup mailman3.

This is a quick guide to setup a development environment to work on Postorius, Mailman 3's web UI (and, in the process, install the core Mailman engine and Mailman.client as well). If all goes as planned, you should be done within ~5 minutes. This has been tested on Ubuntu 11.04 and OS X 10.8.1.  Please note that the Python provided by apple for OSX will not work; you need to install your own version of python (e.g. using fink or macports). The Mac Mailman development setup guide has instructions using homebrew if you need additional instructions.

Also, this 5-minute guide will not help you install HyperKitty, the web-based list archiver; for that, see this guide.

Set up your environment

Install the essentials

$ sudo apt-get install bzr python-dev python-virtualenv build-essential postfix

Set up a virtual environment (here we're calling it "postorius").

Get the sources

(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:mailman.client
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:postorius
(postorius)$ bzr branch lp:~mailman-coders/postorius/postorius_standalone

If you get permission errors on this step, your ssh key is probably not in sync with what is on launchpad.net.

Set up sources

GNU Mailman 3

(postorius)$ cd mailman 
(postorius)$ python setup.py install

If you get no errors you can now start Mailman:

(postorius)$ mailman start
(postorius)$ cd ..

At this point Mailman will not send nor receive any real emails. But that's fine as long as you only want to work on the components related to the ReST client or the web ui.

mailman.client (the Python bindings for Mailman's ReST API)

(postorius)$ cd mailman.client
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..

Postorius

(postorius)$ cd postorius
(postorius)$ python setup.py develop
(postorius)$ cd ..

Start the development server

(postorius)$ cd postorius_standalone
(postorius)$ python manage.py syncdb
(postorius)$ python manage.py runserver

Profit!

Now go to http://localhost:8000 to see the web UI for mailman!



Comments

Máirín Duffy

It looks like bootstrap.py was removed in late July, marked as obsolete. I followed these instructions to get mailman and postorious running, except I replaced the bootstrap.py step with the following:

virtualenv --system-site-packages /path/to/your/installation
$ source /path/to/your/installation/bin/activate
$ python setup.py install

Now, if you get weird errors, remove the --system-site-packages from your virtualenv and try again. I guess depending on how your system is setup, it may or may not work with that option.

Máirín Duffy

I wrote up a guide on how to get hyperkitty up and running for development, and it includes the full modified steps I ran based on this document to get mailman 3 working. That guide is here:

https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/wiki/DevelopmentSetupGuide

maxking

MailmanWiki: DEV/A 5 minute guide to get the Mailman web UI running (last edited 2018-04-20 06:16:05 by maxking)