fml installation guide on Unix
	--- fml Mailing List Server Package ---

				Ken'ichi Fukamachi

   EXCUSE FOR MY LIMITED ENGLISH (I WELCOME FIXES). 

   ***** IMPORTANT!!! *****
   If you use automatic registration and upgrade fml 2.x to fml 3.0, 
   please read UPGRADE file firstly. Especially the first part

http://www.fml.org/fml/UPGRADE-3.0-e/index.html
 

   For easy guideline of installation and fundamental configuration,
   See
http://www.fml.org/fml/examples/index-e.html
 

   For more details of internals, advanced configurations, see
   doc/op.en		(plain text)
http://www.fml.org/fml/op-e/index.html
 

   For more details on advanced settings, please see the part III of
   doc/op.en		(plain text)
http://www.fml.org/fml/op-e/index.html#Configurations
 

   For installation on Windows NT4, please also see INSTALL_on_NT4.
http://www.fml.org/fml/
 

[Terminology]
   The word "ML" is the abbreviation of "Mailing List" in this document.
   % is the shell prompt.
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  • 1 Quick Overview
  • 2 What is ML?
  • 3 Installation
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 What is your OS?
  • 3.3 A few checks before installation
  • 3.4 Installing by makefml
  • 3.5 If you cannot manage /usr and /var .. (e.g. on the provider)
  • 3.6 The Location Where The Fml System Configuration File Is Saved.
  • 4 Overview on how to treat fml
  • 5 Creating A New Mailing List
  • 5.1 Creating A New Mailing List
  • 5.2 Remove a Mailing List
  • 5.3 Digest Delivery
  • 5.4 fmlserv (Listserv or majordomo like interface for fml)
  • 6 To Add And Delete A User In The Mailing List
  • 6.1 Attention When To Add And Delete A User
  • 6.2 To Add A New User To The ML
  • 6.3 To Remove The User From The ML
  • 7 To change the configuration of a mailing list
  • 7.1 TOP MENU
  • 7.2 Manual/Automatic Registration and Access Control Policy
  • 7.3 The type of Automatic Registration
  • 7.4 Address for ML commands
  • 7.5 Remote Administration
  • 7.6 Header Configurations
  • 7.7 Other Optional Settings (e.g. MIME, Automatic Html Generation)
  • 7.8 Security
  • 8 How to add a user by remote administration
  • 8.1 To add the user who can manage the ML server in remote.
  • 8.2 To remove the user who can manage the ML server in remote.
  • 8.3 To set or change the password of the remote-maintenance user
  • 9 Configuration File
  • 9.1 On cf and config.ph
  • 9.2 the format of cf and config.ph
  • 9.3 makefml config-template
  • 9.4 Edit Template Files
  • 10 How to test and debug
  • Appendix A Typical Error Cases
  • Appendix B Attention to the command address
  • Appendix C ML via pop3
  • Appendix D Header information to notify information
  • Appendix E Moderators
  • Appendix F Upgrade (from before fml 2.1)
  • Appendix G Security Consideration __________________________________________
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