[Mailman-Users] Re: HOWTO - EXTERNAL Archiver

[Allen Bolderoff]

> allen:
> 
> thanks for your help.  it was just the encouragement i needed to jump in.
> 
> i have one question though.  while using an external archiver, are mailman
> archive volumes respected?  if i set 'How often should a new archive volume
> be started' to monthly or yearly, will this set up know to create new
> volumes?
> 

I don't know for sure, I would pretty safely assume that they do not affect 
the external mailer, as the external mailer would have no way of using the 
variables data.

I just use the mhonarc commands to do that.



> thanks again,
> 
> brad
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Bolderoff [mailto:allen at gist.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 11:34 AM
> To: Brad Crittenden
> Cc: mailman-users at python.org; allen at harper.gist.net.au
> Subject: HOWTO - EXTERNAL Archiver
> 
> 
> This is the unofficial, 1st probably the last howto for using an External
> Archiver (specifically Mhonarc) with mailman (http://www.list.org)
> it works for me, YMMV
> 
> Allen
> 
> 1. Install mailman as per the installation instructions.
> 
> 2. create a list as per the mailman instructions.
> 
> 3. edit $prefix/Mailman/mm.cfg.py and add the following line (or 2)
> substituting paths for something sane to you.
> 
> PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '(mkdir -p /home/sasmoa/archives/%(listname)s ;
> /usr/local/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir
> /home/sasmoa/archives/%(listname)s -multipg  -expireage 2592000 -idxsize 15
> -noauthsort -reverse -nothread -nosubsort -idxfname index.html -rcfile
> /home/sasmoa/admin/%(listname)s.rc)'
> PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '(mkdir -p /home/sasmoa/archives/%(listname)s ;
> /usr/local/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir
> /home/sasmoa/archives/%(listname)s -multipg  -expireage 2592000 -idxsize 15
> -noauthsort -reverse -nothread -nosubsort -idxfname index.html -rcfile
> /home/sasmoa/admin/%(listname)s.rc)'
> 
> 4. send message to list to test things.
> 
> 5. edit $prefix/Mailman/mm.cfg.py and make the following variable point to
> your web site archive folder
> 
> PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL=/myarchives
> 
> 6. make the web server mount the url in setp 5 with the value of the -outdir
> option form mhonarc in setp 3.
> 
> 7. it should work.
> 
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