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When you install Mailman from a third party package, your primary support resource should be the packager. The packager knows what's in the package and how it should be configured. People on the mailman-users@python.org don't always know these things.
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== I installed Mailman from a package or I followed a HowTo document. Where do I go for help? ==
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For a more detailed and eloquent presentation of this idea, see [[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071769.html]]. When you install Mailman from a third party package, your primary support resource should be the packager. The packager knows what's in the package and how it should be configured. People on the mailman-users lists don't always know these things.
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The same considerations apply if you followed a third party HowTo document. Plus, there may actually be errors or unaccounted for situations in the HowTo and the author should be made aware of these things. Thus, you should at least try to contact the author of the document first. For a more detailed and eloquent presentation of this idea, see
[[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071769.html|http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071769.html]].

The same considerations apply if you followed a third party !HowTo document. Plus, there may actually be errors or unaccounted for situations in the !HowTo and the author should be made aware of these things. Thus, you should at least try to contact the author of the document first.

I installed Mailman from a package or I followed a HowTo document. Where do I go for help?

When you install Mailman from a third party package, your primary support resource should be the packager. The packager knows what's in the package and how it should be configured. People on the mailman-users lists don't always know these things.

For a more detailed and eloquent presentation of this idea, see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071769.html.

The same considerations apply if you followed a third party HowTo document. Plus, there may actually be errors or unaccounted for situations in the HowTo and the author should be made aware of these things. Thus, you should at least try to contact the author of the document first.

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