[Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

[Mark Sapiro]

Brad Knowles wrote:
>
>The problem is that the conversation I had with Alan up to that point 
>had lead me to believe that we were talking about a standard Mailman 
>installation as provided in package format by Debian, and yet Alan's 
>configuration clearly lacked what I consider to be a pretty important 
>core component.


As I tried to indicate in another post, there are possibilities other
than a defect/lack in the Debian package that can cause what Alan
observed.

To elaborate a bit on
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-December/054908.html>,
there are mm_cfg.py settings that can affect archiving in a particular
installation.

ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = -1
disables archiving completely

ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 1
disables pipermail leaving only .mbox archiving

DEFAULT_ARCHIVE = No
sets archive to No as the default for a new list, which setting might
be overlooked by an inexperienced list owner.

There are other settings that could cause pipermail archiving to fail
or be bypassed for a particular installation.

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