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This is the one that password reminders will appear to come from, and it is required for proper Mailman operation. Usually this should be a list called <code>mailman</code>, but if you need to change this, be sure to change the <var>MAILMAN_SITE_LIST</var> variable in <span class="file">mm_cfg.py</span>. You can create the site list with this command, following the prompts: <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> % bin/newlist mailman </pre></div> <p> Now configure your site list. There is a convenient template for a generic site list in the installation directory, under <span class="file">data/sitelist.cfg</span> which can help you with this. 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