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Hi,
<p>I've been working the last two days on integrating MHonArc with Mailman.
As I didn't find a proper FAQ or HOWTO entry about that, I searched the
list, found some related items, but not explicit or complete enough to
have me running the thing in 1,2,3. So I had to investigate myself and
the good thing is, it works fine now. As this question seems to come back
again and again in the list (also recently), I decided to post the results
of my investigation. Maybe it will help you saving some time, then mine
will definitely have been worth it.
<br>I've got RedHat 6.2, Mailman 2.0.5, MHonArc-2.4.5-1, I'm using MHonArc
resource files (*.mrc) which I didn't write myself (I'm not a MHonArc specialist
so please don't ask) and my purpose was to replace standard pipermail
archives by mhonarc ones and this in an automated way. Here are the steps
you have to cover:
<p>- put the following variables into $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (remember
never modifying variables directly into Defaults.py):
<p><tt>PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'</tt>
<br><tt>PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'</tt>
<br><tt>PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir /var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s
>> /tmp/out_external_archiver'</tt>
<br><tt>PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir /var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s
>> /tmp/out_external_archiver'</tt>
<p>where <tt>'/mhonarchive' </tt>is actually the Alias (in httpd.conf)
pointing to the place where I've put my MHonArc archive and <tt>/var/mhonarc/archives/
</tt>is
this place. Note that the MHonArc command line is a very basic one, simply
adding new mail from a Mailman mailbox to the corresponding MHonArc archive,
you may decide to add whatever option you need, I only redirected the output
of the command to a temp file in order to trace it.
<p>- ensure that the following variable is correctly set into $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py:
<p><tt>ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2</tt>
<p>Indeed I cannot guarantee that other values will work, this was the
default one in my file and it archives successfully to Mailman mailbox.
I must add that built-in mailman html archiving doesn't work any more although
it should if I believe the documentation notes. But I don't care as my
goal is just to replace them by MHonArc archives.
<p>- assuming you already have non empty Mailman mailboxes under $prefix/archives/private/
(which was my case), initialize your MHonARc archives with following command:
<p><tt>mhonarc -mbox $prefix/archives/private/yourmaillist.mbox/yourmaillist.mbox
-outdir /var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist -rcfile /var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist/main.mrc</tt>
<p>This also assumes that you first created the directories where you want
to put your MHonArc archives and that you copied the MHonArc resource files
into it (main.mrc..). I issued the command with the mailman uid and also
had the archive directories owned by mailman uid as to avoid permission
problems.
<p>That should do it (it did for me anyway). I noticed that the e-mail/password
authentication for private archives doesn't work, but as I don't need it
for the moment I didn't investigate further ;-)
<p>I hope this helps.
<br>
<p>--
<br>Thierry Jacquemart, IT System Administrator, S1 Belgium
<br>Kleine Kloosterstraat 23, B-1932 Sint-Stevens Woluwe
<br>Phone: +32 2 200.4465 - Fax: +32 2 200.4224
<br>E-mail: thierry.jacquemart@s1.com
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