Lists.wikimedia.org

Mailing lists live on mint.knams.wikimedia.org, in /a/mailman/, a 63GB RAID-1 volume.

The templates for list messages etc. are in /var/lib/mailman/template/<langcode>; these can be customised per-list by copying them to /a/mailman/lists/<listname>/<langcode>/ and editing them. Make sure they're still writable by Apache otherwise the mailman web interface doesn't work! (this means they have to be owned by group mailman and be g+w)

To add a new list:

 /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist

Ensure /a/mailman/aliases.mailman is up-to-date after doing this (newlist will tell you what to add), and run newaliases and postfix reload.

then:

/usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup lists.name_of_list m news

and change the following options in the "[Mail<->News gateways]" section of the list's admin interface:

The hostname of the machine your news server is running on. 

localhost

The name of the Usenet group to gateway to and/or from. 

lists.name_of_list

Should new posts to the mailing list be sent to the newsgroup? 

Yes

The moderation policy of the newsgroup. 

Open list, moderated group

Prefix Subject headers on postings gated to news? 

No

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