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- > |  | ### Customize Mailman You should do these steps using the account you installed Mailman under in section 2 above. The file `$prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py` contains a number of defaults for your installation. If any of these are incorrect, override them in `$prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py`, NOT IN `Defaults.py`! See the comments in `Defaults.py` for details. Once a list is created, editing many of these variables will have no effect (you need to configure your lists through the web admin interface or through the command line script `bin/config_list`). Specifically check to make sure the variables DEFAULT_HOST_NAME and DEFAULT_URL are correct. The latter must end in a slash. The install process will not overwrite an existing `mm_cfg.py` file so you can freely make changes to this file. Note: Do not change HOME_DIR or MAILMAN_DIR. These are set automatically by the configure script. Create the site password using:
  >     $prefix/bin/mmsitepass your-site-password
This password can be used anywhere that individual user or mailing list administrator passwords are required, giving the mailman site administrator the ability to adjust these things when necessary.