Re: Majorcool installation

Greg Monaco wrote:
> Hi.  We've got an old server with our mailing lists running majordomo.  I'd

What version of majordomo?  What MTA (sendmail/postfix/qmail) are you using?

> like to give it a web front end using majorcool.  We are running apache and
> freebsd on the server.  I am not sure of the versions of apache or freebsd
> but they have been updated in the past couple of years.

I'm not sure, but like majordomo I believe majorcool is agnostic to these
things.

> 
> Is adding majorcool pretty straightforward or do we have to worry about
> issues like versioning?  

Please see the DOC and HOWTO links posted below...

> 
> Do we have to backup anything first with respect to lists and email (I know
> that backing up the entire drive would be a good idea)?

If you do not backup and something goes wrong, who are you going to blame?

> 
> Will majorcool work with existing lists or will we have to add all new
> lists?

The documentation should tell you how to configure existing lists to be
available through majorcool.  Try ...

http://www.siliconexus.com/MajorCool/Docs/

> 
> Where is the best site to find majorcool to work in our situation?

I googled on majorcool.tar.gz to find...

http://www.siliconexus.com/MajorCool/majorcool.tar.gz

> 
> Thanks.
>  
> Greg
>  
> 

A quick google on majorcool also turns up this HOWTO page;

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Majordomo-MajorCool/Majordomo-MajorCool-HOWTO-4.html