[Mailman-Users] Broken Attachment Links - How do I fix?

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hi Mark,

Thanks a lot. This worked.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> >I have several mailing lists hosted on a server. I basically moved these
> >lists from one server to the other by tarring up mailman/ from /usr/local,
> >and untarring up to /usr/local on the destination server once I had
> >configured the MTA properly.
> >For each list, I did:
> >
> >./withlist -l -r fix_url LISTNAME -v -u DEFAULT_URL_HOST
> >
> >However, I seem to still have a problem, and I think this has got
> something
> >to do with changing the configuration to have the archives being public,
> >when initially they were private.
> >
> >Without mangling any names, I have the following:
> >
> >http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2005-April/000017.html
> >
> ><http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2005-April/000017.html
> >When
> >you go down that page, you find the url for the attachment. It has the
> wrong
> >DEFAULT_URL_HOST. It should be lists.kictanet.or.ke instead of
> >kictanet.or.ke. The listname in question is "kictanet".
> >The file that contains this attachment is available in the server
> >as /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kictanet.mbox/*kictanet.mbox*
> >However, when I go
> >to /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kictanet/attachments/ no
> attachments
> >are available for some dates since the list was created. I did not delete
> >any files so I believe there is a way to generate these from
> kictanet.mbox,
> >somehow, yes?
> >
> >What exactly should I do to fix the broken link and the missing attachment
> >directories?
>
>
> The archive pages are static pages. Thus, when you tarred up Mailman
> and moved it, you brought over incorrect links to scrubbed attachments.
>
> To fix this, rebuild the entire archive for a list with, e.g.
>
>  bin/arch --wipe kictanet
>
> (see bin/arch --help). This will recreate the entire pipermail archive
> from the
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kictanet.mbox/kictanet.mbox file.
>
> This is why I generally recommend when moving archives to a new host to
> move only the archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox and to
> recreate archives/private/listname/* with bin/arch rather than moving
> it.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>


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