What are the basic requirements for setting up a MailMan installation?
In order to install either edition of MailMan you must have a functioning web server that has the ability to run Perl CGI applications. We strongly recommend Apache (information on Apache is available at http://www.apache.org simply because we are very familiar with it and it is known to work very well almost everywhere. MailMan has been installed on virtually every web server that we have ever heard of, including Microsoft IIS under NT, Xitami http://www.imatix.com/, the proprietary web server used by Best Internet, etc. Your server must have Perl, version 5 installed. For Windows servers we strongly recommend using the ActivePerl interpreter, http://www.activestate.com. We have tested MailMan on systems running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, BSD, and Linux. Additionally, we have users that run MailMan on machines running SGI Irix, Solaris, and others. We have never tested MailMan on any operating system for Apple Macintosh computers and we have no idea whether it will work u
