How to Install HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest

HyperKitty is a web interface for mailing list archives, which is provided by GNU Mailman 3. If you want to install HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest, please follow the below tutorial.

Prerequisites

Step 1 - Install Mailman 3

The first step is to install Mailman 3 since HyperKitty is a web interface for mailing list archives provided by Mailman 3. Here is how you can install Mailman 3:

sudo dnf install mailman3-core mailman3-full -y

This command will install Mailman 3 core and the full set of available features.

Step 2 - Install HyperKitty

The next step is to install HyperKitty. The simplest and easiest way to install HyperKitty is by using pip. Here’s how to do it:

sudo dnf install python3-pip git-core -y
sudo pip3 install virtualenv
sudo mkdir /opt/hyperkitty
sudo chown -R $USER /opt/hyperkitty
cd /opt/hyperkitty
virtualenv hyperkitty-env
source hyperkitty-env/bin/activate
pip install hyperkitty

Step 3 - Configure HyperKitty

After installing HyperKitty, configure it by running this command:

hk-config.py init

It will create configuration files for HyperKitty. Answer all the questions that you will be asked during the configuration.

Step 4 - Configure Mailman for HyperKitty

In this step, you will configure Mailman to use HyperKitty as its archiving interface.

Create the following file:

sudo vi /etc/mailman3/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg

Add the following lines to it:

[general]
base_url = http://<your-server-name>/hk
rest_api_url = https://127.0.0.1:8001/
enable_list_posting = yes
enable_user_posting = yes
dynamic_profile_listname = yes
urlpattern_list = ^(?!admin|accounts|socialaccount|api|auth|static|register|login|password)(?P<list_name>[^/]+)/?$

Step 5 - Start HyperKitty

Start HyperKitty by running the following command:

hyperkitty-server -b 127.0.0.1 -p 8001 --settings=mailman_hyperkitty.settings

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured HyperKitty on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now access the HyperKitty web interface by navigating to http://<your-server-name>/hk.

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