--- README 2001/01/18 20:30:50 1.4
+++ README 2001/08/23 14:00:20 1.5
@@ -1,90 +1,45 @@
+ OSSP Petidomo 4.0
- Petidomo Mailing List Manager
- Version 4
-
-
-Greetings citizen,
-
-I know how tedious reading "manuals" is when you're eager to install
-the new software, so I'll keep it as short as possible. Before
-Petidomo can be installed, either from a binary or a source
-distribution, you -must- do the following:
-
- 1) Create a user of the name "petidomo".
-
- The petidomo-user is needed by the software, but will usually not
- be used to log into the system, so you should set the password
- entry to "*" and the login shell to "/usr/bin/true" or
- "/sbin/nologin" -- depending on what your system uses.
-
-
- 2) Create a group of the name "petidomo".
-
- This group should contain all users of your system who are allowed
- to administrate Petidomo or for other reasons need access to the
- installation. The "petidomo" user should be a member of this
- group, too, even though this is not strictly necessary.
-
-
- 3) Create the home directory of the "petidomo" user.
-
- The home directory is the place where the package will live. A
- good place is "/usr/local/petidomo", but you can place it
- wherever it suits your installation.
-
-
-Once the user, the group and the directory exist, you can use the
-following mechanisms to do the actual installation.
-
-If you're upgrading from Petidomo 2.0 and have some mailing lists
-installed already, you can safely use these mechanisms, too. In no
-event will the installation procedure overwrite your config files or
-change anything except for the actual binaries.
-
-The installation itself works as follows:
-
- Binary distribution:
-
- Become 'root' and start the "install.sh" script, which can be
- found in the same directory as this file. install.sh will populate
- the home directory of the petidomo user and insert the required
- mail aliases into /etc/aliases. Then it will install the CGI
- config manager and that's it: Petidomo is ready to run.
-
-
- Source distribution:
-
- Obviously you need to compile the sources first of all. In order
- to compile Petidomo, you will need the following tools:
-
- - a C compiler, preferably gcc or egcs
-
- - a version of make(1) that understands the "include" and
- ".PHONY" statement (use GNU make if your native make doesn't)
-
- - flex, the GNU version of lex
-
- - bison, the GNU version of yacc, at least version 1.25. Older
- version -might- work, but I had problems with them, because
- they're lacking the YYERROR_VERBOSE mechanism.
-
- If you have all these tools, you can compile Petidomo with the
- following commands:
-
- $ make
- $ make install (must be done as root)
-
-
-In case you experience any problems you're not able to fix, you're
-welcome to file a problem report with the "send-pr" utility, included
-in the distribution. You might also want to check out the
-petidomo-users mailing list, to which you can subscribe by sending a
-SUBSCRIBE command to the following address:
-
- petidomo-users-request@petidomo.com
-
-Okay, I hope you'll find the Petidomo Mailing List Manager useful, and
-may the force be with you!
-
-
- Peter Simons <simons@petidomo.com>
+On December 12th, 2000, CyberSolutions GmbH published a version of
+Petidomo 2.2 under the GNU General Public License. The OSSP project
+enhanced that version significantly and hereby releases the result of
+its efforts as »OSSP Petidomo 4.0«. OSSP Petidomo is a small but
+powerful package that can be used to host and maintain mailing lists
+on an Unix machine. Its only requirement is that there is a working
+mail transport agent installed, such as sendmail.
+
+OSSP Petidomo has -- among other things -- the following features:
+
+ * A simple-to-use e-mail command interface, which can be used by
+ users and administrators of a mailing list to subscribe or
+ unsubscribe addresses, approve postings that have been deferred or
+ rejected, list all subscribed addresses of a list, etc.
+
+ * Petidomo supports various modes of operation for a mailing list
+ such as open lists, closed lists, and moderated lists.
+
+ * Mailing list subscriptions or postings can be verified by requiring
+ an acknowledgement. This feature is particularly useful when used
+ for mailing list postings as it will keep the vast majority of all
+ spam mail off the list.
+
+ * Petidomo can host an arbitrary number of mailing lists in entirely
+ different domain name spaces -- also known as »Virtual Hosting«.
+
+ * A powerful »Access Control Language« (ACL) can be used to reject,
+ approve, drop, or redirect postings or subscription attempts.
+
+ * Mailing list postings can be piped through an external »Posting
+ Filter«, which can modify the article before it's delivered in any
+ way it sees fit.
+
+ * Petidomo can be configured to add arbitrary headers to any mail
+ that's posted on a mailing list.
+
+ * Petidomo can be configured to add a signature to any mail that's
+ posted on a mailing list.
+
+The whole package is written in ISO-C and should compile
+out-of-the-box on any POSIX.1 compliant system that provides a mail
+transport agent. It has been released under the GNU General Public
+License.
|
