This page is a scratchpad for Terri's Dockerfile, which sets up a very default version of Mailman in your container so that you can try out Mailman 3 suite. Suggestions and instructions for use welcome!

The Mailman 3 Suite Dockerfile

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# Dockerfile to setup GNU Mailman Suite
# Based on Ubuntu
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# Set the base image to Ubuntu
FROM ubuntu

# File Author / Maintainer
MAINTAINER Terri Oda

# Update the sources and install some basic python stuff
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y bzr python3-dev python3-pip python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv

# Get the nodejs stuff
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs npm
RUN npm install -g less
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

# Set the default directory where CMD will execute
WORKDIR /mailman3

# Get Mailman Bundler
RUN bzr branch lp:mailman-bundler

# Get buildout, go into Mailman Bundler and build
RUN pip install zc.buildout
WORKDIR /mailman3/mailman-bundler
RUN buildout

# Set up virtualenv
RUN virtualenv venv
RUN . venv/bin/activate

# Expose ports
EXPOSE 8000

# Prep some stuff
RUN ./bin/mailman-post-update
RUN ./bin/mailman-web-django-admin createsuperuser
RUN ./bin/mailman start

# This sets the django webserver up to not only run, but binds it to all interfaces, port 8000
ENTRYPOINT ./bin/mailman-web-django-admin runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 

Building the docker image

Copy the content above into a file named Dockerfile in a directory, and then run the following command:

    sudo docker build -t mailman .

This will take some time to build a docker image with the required steps.

Starting the container and mailman3 suite

sudo docker run mailman

Then find out the container id by following command

sudo docker ps

This will start the mailman docker container. You can find out the ip using

sudo docker inspect hash_of_docker"

For example I can open "http://172.17.0.15:8000/" in my browser to view Mailman3.

Or, if you want to use a single line to generate that url, try this:

echo "http://$( docker inspect $( docker ps | tail -n 1 | awk '{ print $1; }' ) | grep -i ipaddress | awk '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/[",]*//g' ):8000/"