Secure vs. Non-Secure Web

Question

I want to have my users able to access webmail from outside of our internal domain. Of course, this means I need to set up some form of secure communication between the server and the user that is trying to connect. In this case, its SSL. However, I am running into two problems when trying to implement this. First, because I am running mailman to administer lists, when I try to connect to the mailman web interface the server wants to use https instead of http and none of the mailman links work until I manually type at s after http. This gets very tedious when you're trying to administer a list of 100+ users that send hundreds of e-mails per day.
Second, I want the server to default to https. Users type my.occu-med.net to connect to the server, but that defaults to http and not https. Again, users have to type in the additional s before the website will work.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
James

Answer 1

For the mailman issue, there's a script in the mailman distribution that lets you reset the list URL
/usr/share/mailman/bin/fix_url.py
You can reset each list's URL to point to the HTTPS rather than the HTTP version.
As for defaulting everything to HTTPS the standard option here is to have the HTTP site generate redirects to the HTTPS site. You can do this via a RewriteRule (as well as other options)
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ https://your.domain.com/$1 [R]
You can either add the above to your site's config, or use Server Admin to add a rewrite.