ezmlm-browse

July 24, 2012 Roberto Puzzanghera 0 comments

Info: http://untroubled.org/ezmlm-browse/
Version: 0.20 (2010-12-03)

ezmlm-browse is a web interface for browsing ezmlm-idx archives.

Download the package in a folder not visible by apache

cd /var/www
wget http://untroubled.org/ezmlm-browse/ezmlm-browse-0.20.tar.gz
tar xzf ezmlm-browse-0.20.tar.gz
ln -s ezmlm-browse-0.20 ezmlm-browse
cd ezmlm-browse
chown -R root.root .

Check the files ezmlm-browse/conf-* files and adjust them to your system. Now run make:

make

Create a directory visible from the web:

mkdir wwwroot
cd wwwroot
ln -s ../ezmlm-browse.ini

Symlink "browse.cgi" into that directory as "index.cgi" if your site is using Apache suexec or equivalent. Otherwise symlink "wrapper" in as "index.cgi" and make it setuid to a user that has access to the lists archive (vpopmail in our case):

chmod u+s ../wrapper
chown vpopmail.vchkpw ../wrapper
ln -s ../wrapper index.cgi

Now setup apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot /var/www/ezmlm-browse/wwwroot
 ServerName lists.yourdomain.net
 <Directory "/var/www/ezmlm-browse/wwwroot">
     AllowOverride AuthConfig 
     Options +ExecCGI
     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
     DirectoryIndex index.cgi
     Require all granted
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Point the browser to: http://lists.yourdomain.net and this is the look of ezmlm-browse:

If you don't like the serif default font and the null padding inside the tables' cells, you can easily adjust the css located in ezmlm-browse/files/browse.css. I modified the body tag and very first lines as follows:

# nano /var/www/ezmlm-browse/files/browse.css

BODY { background: #efeff7; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}

a:link, a:visited {text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}

h1, div, td, th {padding: 7px;}

and this is the result:

ezmlm-browse

Showing your lists to the public

Once you have created your lists with qmailadmin or ezmlm-web, you can define the lists that will be visible to the public modifying as follow the ezmlm-browse.ini file:

[archive:test]
listdesc = Test list
listdir = /home/vpopmail/domains/yourdomain.net/test
listemail = test@yourdomain.net
listsub = test-subscribe@yourdomain.net

Be aware that the subscription address must be like listname-subscribe@yourdomain.net.

Be carefull: non ASCII characters in listdesc throws Python in error. Use html syntax instead.

vQadmin

ezmlm-web