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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Mailman 3 setup using Podman Quadlets. Containers are supposed to run in rootles
 # installation
 1. Switch to the user account you want to use to run Mailman.
 1. In the user account's home directory, create the directory where the Systemd generator looks for quadlets.
-```bash $ mkdir -p ~mailman/.config/containers/systemd```
+        ```bash $ mkdir -p ~mailman/.config/containers/systemd```
 1. Then copy the files from the *mailman/* subdirectory in this repository into the quadlet directory:
 ```bash $ cp mailman/* ~mailman/.config/containers/systemd/```
  1. Now we have to generate some secrets which the various components use to talk to each other: