RPM packaged mailman3 "enhanced" for Fedora and Enterprise Linux
Until included by EPEL and potentially adjustments are overtaken in Fedora available via copr:
Native mailman3 RPM has a lot of dependencies to Python packages. EPEL cannot fulfill dependencies as of 2023-11 at least for EL8 and still not complete for EL9. Fedora has only a standard version packaged as of 2023-11 missing some important enhancements.
- reproducable
- identical version can be used in test and production
- no connection to PIP required during build and installation
- should be anyhow avoided on productive systems
- ready-to-use
- enriched for CAPTCHA support
Package mailman3-enhanced by storing all not fulfillable dependencies in USER_SITE and implant all extensions.
- SELinux policy
- CAPTCHA support already prepared
- Google's reCAPTCHA
- hCaptcha
- Friendly Captcha
- Cloudflare's Turnstile
- database: SQLite
- systemd service & timer files for
- mailman
- mailman-web
- reverse proxy config file for Apache
- logrotate config
| OS | Status |
|---|---|
| EL8 | ok |
| EL9 | ok |
| EL10 | pending (1) |
| F40 | ok |
| F41 | ok |
| F42 | ok |
(1) availability of python3 modules are still not on same level as of EL9 (2025-01-13)
Recommended on a dedicated build host
# clone repo
git clone https://github.com/pbiering/mailman3-rpm.git
# change into directory
cd mailman3-rpm
# fetch release package
wget https://github.com/pbiering/mailman3-rpm/archive/refs/tags/<VERSION>-<RELEASE>.tar.gz
# extract package
tar xzf mailman3-rpm-<VERSION>-<RELEASE>.tar.gz
# change into directory
cd mailman3-rpm-<VERSION>-<RELEASE>
Extract dependencies
# from spec file
rpmbuild -bb mailman3.spec 2>&1 | awk '$0 ~ "is needed" { print $1 }' | xargs echo "dnf install"
# from source RPM
rpmbuild --rebuild /path/to/mailman3-enhanced-<VERSION>.src.rpm 2>&1 | awk '$0 ~ "is needed" { print $1 }' | xargs echo "dnf install"
Install packages listed above
dnf install ...
create Source RPM by downloading external dependencies
rpmbuild -bs mailman3.spec --undefine=_disable_source_fetch --define "_topdir ." --define "_sourcedir ." --define "_srcrpmdir ."
or use the included Makefile
make srpm
rpmbuild --rebuild ./mailman3-<VERSION>-<RELEASE>.<DIST>.src.rpm
or use the included Makefile
make rpm
Transfer RPM to final destination system and install (this will also resolve and install required dependencies)
dnf localinstall mailman3-enhanced-<VERSION>-<RELEASE>.<DIST>.<ARCH>.rpm
Until updated in Fedora and included by EPEL available via copr:
dnf install mailman3-enhanced
- check output of RPM after installation in general
- check main config file:
/etc/mailman.cfg - check additional config files in
/etc/mailman3/- important: settings.py
- check configuration of
postfix
General: read provided documentation on https://docs.mailman3.org/
CAPTCHA is injected into
| Package | File(s) |
|---|---|
| postorius | forms/list_forms.py |
| allauth | account/forms.py |
| django | contrib/admin/forms.py contrib/admin/templates/admin/login.html |
CAPTCHA can be configured by editing options in file /etc/mailman3/settings.py
- Google's reCAPTCHA:
RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY+RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY - hCaptcha:
HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY+HCAPTCHA_SECRET - Friendly Captcha:
FRC_CAPTCHA_SITE_KEY+FRC_CAPTCHA_SECRET - Cloudflare's Turnstile:
TURNSTILE_SITEKEY+TURNSTILE_SECRET
Selection of configured service: CAPTCHA_SERVICE
| CAPTCHA_SERVICE | Description |
|---|---|
| recaptcha recaptchaV2C |
Google's reCAPTCHA version 2 "Checkbox" |
| recaptchaV2I | Google's reCAPTCHA version 2 "Invisible" |
| recaptchaV3 | Google's reCAPTCHA version 3 |
| hcaptcha | hCaptcha |
| friendlycaptcha | Friendly Captcha |
| turnstile | Cloudflare's Turnstile |
- based on https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mailman3/tree/rawhide
- for migration 2->3 see https://github.com/pbiering/mailman3-rpm/blob/main/MIGRATION.md