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| ezmlm-web-3.3.1 |
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$Id$
If you only want to know how to install ezmlm-web, then you should
read INSTALL.
Contents
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I. Copyright Stuff
II. Requirements
III. Multi-level list access
IV. Multilingual interface
V. Encryption support
VI. Bugs && Bug Reports
VII. Acknowledgements
VIII. Availability
I. Copyright Stuff - essentially the FreeBSD licence ...
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ezmlm-web - version 3.3.1 - 14/10/02008
Copyright (C) 1998, Guy Antony Halse, All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (C) 02005-02008, Lars Kruse, All Rights Reserved.
Please send bug reports and comments to ezmlm-web@sumpfralle.de
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither name Guy Antony Halse nor the names of any contributors may be used
to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
II. Requirements
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This version of ezmlm-web requires the following;
* qmail v1.03
* ezmlm-idx v0.40 or higher
* clearsilver v0.10.3 (only perl support is necessary)
* Perl v5.004 and the following modules;
+ Mail::Ezmlm v0.07
+ Mail::Address v1.15 OR Email::Address
+ CGI v2.6
+ CGI::Carp v1.06
+ DB_File v1.65
+ Getopt::Std v4.1
+ File::Find v?
+ File::Copy v2.02
+ File::Path v1.07
+ Text::ParseWords v3.24
+ MIME::QuotedPrint v?
+ Encode (optional)
The version number indicates the version of the module that ezmlm-web was
developed with. Earlier versions may work, but then they haven't been
tested. Have a look on http://www.CPAN.org/, http://www.qmail.org/, and
http://www.ezmlm.org/ for anything you are missing. Of course, newer
versions are expected to work as well.
To install perl modules you may use the cpan command line interface.
Just run "cpan" and type something like "install Mail::Ezmlm".
You can download clearsilver (a templating engine) from http://clearsilver.net.
III. Multi-Level Access
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Ezmlm-web has a multi-level access system. This depends on a file called
webusers being present in $LIST_DIR. If the file is not present, then ANY
valid user has access to all lists. If, however, this file exists a number
of constraints come into place.
- The webusers file is scanned for either the list name (case insensitive) or
an ALL (case sensitive) entry.
- The list entry (or ALL) is scanned for the current user (as set in
$REMOTE_USER) or an ALL (user) entry.
- If any valid match is made, then the user is allowed to edit the list.
Otherwise the user is politely told to go away ;-)
If list creation is allowed and the webusers file exists, then the person who
creates the list is the default owner. There is no way to create users
through the web interface, as this depends on your authentication system.
The format of a webusers file is as follows:
list1: user1 user2 user3
ALL: user1 user2
list2: ALL
Once this file exists, the ezmlm-web script will allow the list users to
configure their access lists along with any other options.
You can permit some users to create lists by adding a line similar to the
following to your webusers file:
ALLOW_CREATE: user2 user3
If there is no line starting with "ALLOW_CREATE:" in the webusers file, then
no one will be allowed to create lists. This behaviour is new for ezmlm-web
since version 2.2. To stay compatible to old installations, the commandline
option "-c" for ezmlm-web.cgi will still allow everyone to create lists. The
use of this option is deprecated, since the line "ALLOW_CREATE: ALL" provides
the same effect in a cleaner way.
You find the details of the format of webusers (5) file in the respective
manpage.
IV. Multilingual interface
==========================
One of the great new features since version 2.0 is that it is essentially
language independant. All of the fixed strings, help, etc is defined in the
files of the lang directory. Of course you can change them or create a new
translation.
The default fallback language can be selected in ezmlmwebrc with the
"HTML_LANGUAGE" option. ezmlm-web tries to determine the language of the
current user by evaluating the http header information of the browser.
Additionally the user may select a different language via the web interface.
The currently supported languages are:
- English
- German
- Slovenian
- Portuguese (Brazil)
Please visit the translation center at http://translate.systemausfall.org
to contribute some translations for your native language. Thanks!
V. Encryption support
=====================
ezmlm-web supports encrypted mailinglists since v3.3.
See README.crypto for details.
VI. Bugs && Bug Reports
=======================
I don't know of any bugs ...
Ezmlm-web has been tested reasonably well, but not exhaustively. I know it
works on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE, FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, RedHat 5.1, Redhat 6.0 and
Debian all using an Apache web server, but I would be interested to know
whether it works on other OSs and with other web servers.
Please mail bug reports and comments to
ezmlm-web@sumpfralle.de
Or (even better) submit a bug report at
https://systemausfall.org/trac/ezmlm-web
Or subscribe to the ezmlm-web mailinglist:
ezmlm-web-subscribe@lists.systemausfall.org
VII. Acknowledgements
=====================
* Guy Antony Halse (guy-ezmlm@rucus.ru.ac.za) - he created ezmlm-web
and maintained it till 02005
* Keith Burdis (keith@rucus.ru.ac.za) - For constantly bugging me (Guy) and
ensuring that I actually got round to writing some code :)
* Bryan Kilian (bryan@rucus.ru.ac.za) and the administrators of the
Litestep mailing list - For helping beta test and putting up with me (Guy)
pestering them.
* Several societies at Rhodes. For switching to my web interface and so
unknowingly helping to beta test it.
* Barry Irwin (bvi@moria.org) - For trusting me (Guy) and moving the Grahamstown
Foundation over to qmail and ezmlm - yet another beta tester :-)
* David Summers (david@summersoft.fay.ar.us) - For some ideas. And for
offering to make up an RPM version. I hope the offer still exists for
version 2.0 :-)
* Glen Stewart (glen_stewart@associate.com) - For a multitude of ideas.
* Fred Lindberg (lindberg@id.wustl.edu) for his useful posts to the
mailing list, suggestions, help, etc
* Galen Johnson (gjohnson@totalsports.net) - For some ideas on bugfixes.
* Reinin Ooyama (lenin@hasiru.net) - a Japanese translation and bugixes for v2.3
* Henning Rieger (age@systemausfall.org) - designed most of the new
interface for v3.0
* Clavdia Horvat - designed the new color scheme of v3.2 and translated to
Slovenian
* Carlinhos Cecconi - added the translation for Portugues do Brasil
* Hans F. Nordhaug - fixed MANIFEST file and reported typos
* Jose Luis Martinez - various code improvements; added the Spanish translation
* Anton Ponkratov - added the Russian translation
* kinneko - added the Japanese translation
VIII. Availability
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More information on ezmlm-web and developments to ezmlm-web can be found at:
https://systemausfall.org/toolforge/ezmlm-web/
The public subversion repository is at:
https://svn.systemausfall.org/svn/ezmlm-web/
The (inofficial) debian repository containing ezmlm-web is at:
http://systemausfall.org/toolforge/debian/
The translation web interface (powered by Pootle) is at:
http://translate.systemausfall.org
The website of Guy Antony Halse (the original author of ezmlm-web) is still at:
http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~guy/ezmlm/
The old ftp-archive of ezmlm-web is still available on:
ftp://rucus.ru.ac.za/pub/mail/ezmlm/
