= Installing Mailng =


This page is a temporary memo, as it will get outdated by upcomming auto-install features.[[BR]]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

== Back-end ==

=== Data Base ===

Not all data base back-end are supported by Django see [http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/databases/#ref-databases: 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 [http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/: Django settings] for more details.[[BR]]

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