Dada Mail's Global Configuration can be saved currently in two places.
The first place is in the Config.pm file, located in the, dada/DADA directory of your Dada Mail. All the default global configuration variables are saved there and you can edit them to customize your Dada Mail. All the variables are well documented, do see:
We do highly suggest that you do not edit the Config.pm directly, unless you need to (for, whatever reason), but use The Advanced Installation Method when you do make a new installation of Dada Mail:
http://dadamailproject.com/installation/installation_advanced.html
If Dada Mail is configured straight in the Config.pm file, more likely than not, the following variables: $PROGRAM_ROOT_PASSWORD, $FILES, $MAILPROG and $PROGRAM_URL will be changed from their defaults, to be values that fit in with your hosting account.
If these variables are not customized for your specific installation, more likely than not, you're using the Advanced Installation Method and have your global configuration saved in the, .dada_config file.
The global configuration file (.dada_config) lives in the directory that may be set in the Config.pm's variable, $PROGRAM_CONFIG_FILE_DIR. If this variable is set to, $PROGRAM_CONFIG_FILE_DIR, it's automatically being looked for, so the, $PROGRAM_CONFIG_FILE_DIR variable won't be much help.
Another way to find where the .dada_config file is located is to visit your Dada Mail, with the following query string:
http://example.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi
Enter your Dada Mail Root Password and you should similar text to the below:
Your $PROGRAM_CONFIG_FILE_DIR variable has been set to,
/home/account/.dada_files/.configs
Your outside configuration file is being looked for at:
/home/account/.dada_files/.configs/.dada_config
In this case, your outside configuration file is located at:
/home/account/.dada_files/.configs/.dada_config
When using our Advanced Installation:
http://dadamailproject.com/installation/installation_advanced.html
and Semi-Auto Advanced Installation:
http://dadamailproject.com/installation/installation_adv_semi_auto.html
Methods, several oft-used global configuration variables are placed in the .dada_config file, but the are not active. To activate them, you must remove the =cut strings that are placed right before and right after the chunk of variables they're inactivating. For example:
# start cut for plugin configs =cut
$PLUGIN_CONFIGS = {
Mystery_Girl => {
# A whole bunch of stuff...
},
};
=cut
# end cut for plugin configs
In this case, you want to remove the following lines:
# start cut for plugin configs =cut
and,
=cut # end cut for plugin configs
There's a ReadMe about the example outside config file (.dada_config) located in the Dada Mail distribution at:
dada/extras/examples/example_dada_config-README.txt
For more technical documentation on the $PROGRAM_CONFIG_FILE_DIR variable, see the Config.pm file's entry:
Config.pm.html#_program_config_file_dir
Currently, no. Each instance of Dada Mail requires a separate installation. We hope to have this available as a feature of Dada Mail in the future.
See the, %LIST_SETUP_DEFAULTS and %LIST_SETUP_INCLUDE Config.pm variables:
Config.pm.html#_list_setup_defaults
http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-dada-3_0-beta_3/Config.pm.html#_list_setup_include
Presently, there isn't. It's basically a global (well, to Dada Mail) unique identifier of your Mailing List, so changing it would either involving changing every single instance used, including all the logs, or, saying, the heck with the past, let's move forward and just changing the various files that refer to the List short name. Either way is messy. It's not impossible, but it's currently not easily possible with hacking about.