[Mailman-Users] Installed, now stumped

[Michael Cooley]

Thanks for the replies, guys. I had a mailman account several years ago
with another provider that did provide direct access to the archive, hence
my confusion on the matter.

I like the idea of creating a user for back up. I can pipe the incoming it
to hypermail or some other such thing.

I've also resurrected a simple distribution script I wrote several years
but I'm not sure that I want to go down that road. The archive is only in
mbox/*nix format but that's okay for now.

In any case, thanks for the clarification and suggestions!

-Michael

> On 9/3/2011 2:58 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
>> I'd understand if mailman cannot be run from a user account. Hostmonster
>> does provide it, but does not allow shell access to the archive. I need
>> that for back-up purposes and to integrate my old archive with the
>> new--and just because I'd expect that kind of access.
>
>
> Hostmonster may be willing to seed your new archive with your old
> archive if you can provide a *nix mbox format file containing the archive.
>
> You can access your list's archive mbox file by first logging in to the
> archive with a URL like
> <http://www.example.com/mailman/private/LISTNAME> or however that looks
> for hostmonster and then retrieving
> <http://www.example.com/mailman/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox>.
> You use the 'private' archive URL for this even if the archive is public.
>
> Another way to provide backup is to subscribe an address to the list and
> just backup the mail received at that address or, if your archive is
> public, use one or more services like <http://www.mail-archive.com>.
>
>
>> How do I do this?
>>
>> * Find a way to run mailman as a machine user?
>
>
> You can't. You have to be an admin of the machine or a VPS in order to
> install and run a fully functioning Mailman.
>
>
>> * Find instructions to give to Hostmonster to allow archive permissions?
>
>
> They won't because this would allow access to all the archives for all
> their customer's lists.
>
>
>> * Find another provider?
>
>
> See <http://wiki.list.org/display/COM/Mailman+hosting+services> for
> suggestions.
>
>
>> * Find another list server that will give me direct access?
>
>
> No Mailman host that hosts more than one customer's lists will give you
> this access because it's global.
>
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