[Mailman-Users] denying mbox AND txt archives

[Jim Popovitch]

And I have now added this info to the MM FAQ as

   4.66. disabling "bulk" pipermal archive files (.mbox and .txt) **

-Jim P.

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> OK, I solved my own problem with....
> 
> this bit of Apache config:
>      RedirectMatch permanent /mailman/private/.*/.*\.txt /mailman/
>      RedirectMatch permanent /mailman/private/.*/.*\.mbox /mailman/
>      RedirectMatch permanent /archives/.*/.*\.txt /archives/
>      RedirectMatch permanent /archives/.*/.*\.mbox /archives/
> 
> this change to HyperArch.py:
> 
>     *** Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py       Wed Jan 25 18:04:16 2006
>     --- Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py.orig  Wed Jan 25 18:04:13 2006
>     ***************
>     *** 817,824 ****
>               else:
>                   # there's no archive file at all... hmmm.
>                   textlink = ''
>     -
>     -         textlink = ''
>               return quick_maketext(
>                   'archtocentry.html',
>                   {'archive': arch,
>     --- 817,822 ----
> 
> and minor changes to template/*/archliststart.html to remove language 
> specific references to "Downloadable version".
> 
> I honestly think that Mailman should support properly chmod'ing 
> private/*/*.mbox and private/*/*.txt files when the site sets 
> PUBLIC_MBOX to "No".
> 
> BTW, this was for MM 2.1.7
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to "privatize" archive txt files?  I know that 
>> PUBLIC_MBOX prevents the mbox URL from appearing in thread.html, 
>> date.html, etc., and I can also block *.mbox at the server.  HOWEVER, 
>> blocking *.txt at the server isn't an option for me.  Is there a way to 
>> have the archiver chmod archive .txt and .mbox files?
>>
>> Tia,
>>
>> -Jim P.
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