Installing Mailng

This page is a temporary memo, as it will get outdated by upcomming auto-install features.
It gives one or more tips about installation.

Back-end

Data Base

Not all data base back-end are supported by Django see  Django doc for more details.

• MySQL backend: on ubuntu (tested on 9.10), install the python-mysqldb package.

  sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
  

  See  Django settings for more details.
  

• postfix backend : on ubuntu (tested on 9.10), install the postfix package.

  sudo apt-get install postfix
  

Plug-in

Statistics

To activate the extension, edit your settings.py and add the following line inside the INSTALLED_APPS variable::

'mailng.extensions.stats'

You need to collect mail log information periodically in order to feed the rrd files. To do so, just add the following lines into root's crontab::

*/5 * * * * PYTHONPATH=<mailng_dir/..> DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mailng.settings <mailng_dir>/extensions/stats/logparser.py