Plesk 8 uses Mailman to manage mail lists. The default Plesk configuration allows you to create a mail lists and add users to it, but it doesn’t switch it on! So here is what you do…

1. Log in to your Plesk server via ssh
2. Check the status of mailman, to see if it’s running:

   /etc/init.d/mailman status

3. If it is running, you can go to the configure your list section below.
4. If not, you will have to set the system to start it up.
5. Change to the boot start up directory:

   cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/

6. and check that it is set up to start it up on boot. Check that it is not already set up:

   ls -l | grep mailman

7. Start up scripts start with an ‘S’ and shutdown scripts start with a ‘K’. If there isn’t one to start up mailman you must create one:

   ln -s ../init.d/mailman S98mailman

8. You can alter that 98 number to change the start up order.
9. Next we need to start up the service:

   /etc/init.d/mailman start

10. You can check to make sure it is running with the status mailman command:

    /etc/init.d/mailman status

11. If it is running you can go to the configure your list
12. If not - you are on your own! Sorry…!
13. Now you can go into your Plesk admin pages, and start creating mail lists

I have almost finished the plesk mailman cheat sheet blog so I’ll post that when it’s ready.