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  OSSP petidomo - mailing list manager
  Version 4.0b6 (19-Mar-2004)

  ABSTRACT

    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,
    alist ll 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.

  COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

  Copyright (c) 2004 The OSSP Project <http://www.ossp.org/>

  This file is part of OSSP petidomo, an application for managing
  mailing lists which can found at http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for
  any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that
  the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
  copies.

  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED 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 AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND THEIR
  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.

  HOME AND DOCUMENTATION

  The documentation and latest release can be found on

  o http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/
  o  ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/

  PETI's STATEMENT

		    Petidomo Mailing List Manager
			  Version 4.0b6 (19-Mar-2004)


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>