<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="mailman-install.css" type='text/css' /> <link rel="first" href="mailman-install.html" title='GNU Mailman - Installation Manual' /> <link rel='last' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel='help' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel="next" href="node3.html" /> <link rel="prev" href="front.html" /> <link rel="parent" href="front.html" /> <link rel="next" href="node3.html" /> <meta name='aesop' content='information' /> <title>1 Installation Requirements</title> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div id='top-navigation-panel' xml:id='top-navigation-panel'> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="Front Matter" href="front.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Front Matter" href="front.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="2 Set up your" href="node3.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - Installation Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="front.html">Front Matter</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="front.html">Front Matter</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node3.html">2 Set up your</A> </div> <hr /></div> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION001100000000000000000"> 1 Installation Requirements</A> </H1> <P> GNU Mailman works on most POSIX-based systems such as <span class="Unix">Unix</span>, MacOSX, or GNU/Linux. It does not currently work on Windows. You must have a mail server that you can send messages to, and a web server that supports the CGI/1.1 API. <a class="ulink" href="http://httpd.apache.org" >Apache</a> makes a fine choice for web server, and mail servers such as <a class="ulink" href="http://www.postfix.org" >Postfix</a>, <a class="ulink" href="http://www.exim.org" >Exim</a>, <a class="ulink" href="http://www.sendmail.org" >Sendmail</a>, and <a class="ulink" href="http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html" >qmail</a> should work just fine. <P> To install Mailman from source, you will need an ANSI C compiler to build Mailman's security wrappers. The <a class="ulink" href="http://gcc.gnu.org" >GNU C compiler gcc</a> 2.8.1 or later is known to work well. <P> You must have the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.python.org" >Python</a> interpreter installed somewhere on your system. Mailman 2.1 requires Python 2.1 or newer, although Python 2.3 or newer is recommended. <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'> <p></p><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="Front Matter" href="front.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="Front Matter" href="front.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="2 Set up your" href="node3.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">GNU Mailman - Installation Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="front.html">Front Matter</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="front.html">Front Matter</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="node3.html">2 Set up your</A> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.1, documentation updated on December 13, 2005.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </BODY> </HTML>