Installing Postorius on Arch Linux

This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Postorius on Arch Linux. Postorius is a Django-based web user interface for the GNU Mailman email management software.

Prerequisites

Before we start, make sure that:

• You are logged in as a user with sudo access.
• You have installed Python and virtualenv on your system.
• You have installed Mailman, which is necessary for Postorius to function.

Step 1 - Create a virtual environment

First, create a virtual environment for Postorius to isolate its dependencies from the rest of the system.

Open a terminal, and run the following commands:

sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv

mkdir ~/postorius-env

cd ~/postorius-env

virtualenv postorius-env

Activate the virtual environment with the following command:

source postorius-env/bin/activate

Step 2 - Install Postorius

After you have created your virtual environment, you can now install Postorius. To do that, run the following command:

pip install postorius

This will install Postorius and all its dependencies.

Step 3 - Configure Postorius

Once you have installed Postorius, you need to configure it to work with Mailman.

To do that, you need to modify the configuration file, which is located in:

~/postorius-env/postorius-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/postorius/settings.py

Use your favorite text editor to open this file, and find the following lines:

MAILMAN_REST_API_URL = 'http://localhost:8001/3.1/'  # Mailman API endpoint URL
MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_URL = 'http://localhost:8003/'  # Mailman Archiver URL

Replace the http://localhost:8001/3.1/ and http://localhost:8003/ URLs with the appropriate Mailman REST API and Archiver URLs for your system.

Save the changes to the file and exit your text editor.

Step 4 - Launch Postorius

You are now ready to launch Postorius.

To do that, run the following command:

python -m postorius

This will start the Postorius development server, which you can access by opening your web browser and navigate to:

http://localhost:8000/lists/

You will be prompted to log in with your email address and password.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Postorius on Arch Linux.