I hadn't thought about the situation where your default site language is not 'en' and the language which /is/ your site language is missing a template. Mailman should always fall back to the English template as a last resort. Can you try this (untested) patch -- before Ousmane checks in the French emptyarchive.html file? I'm in a meeting so I can't test this yet myself, but I will later tonight. If it works, I'll check this in. Thanks, -Barry Index: Utils.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mailman/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py,v retrieving revision 2.25 diff -u -r2.25 Utils.py --- Utils.py 2002/01/06 07:49:03 2.25 +++ Utils.py 2002/01/07 23:02:46 @@ -480,8 +480,14 @@ except quickexit: pass if fp is None: - # We never found the template. BAD! - raise IOError(errno.ENOENT, 'No template file found', templatefile) + # Try one last time with the distro English template, which, unless + # you've got a really broken installation, must be there. + try: + fp = open(os.path.join(mm_cfg.TEMPLATE_DIR, 'en', templatefile)) + except IOError, e: + if e.errno <> errno.ENOENT: raise + # We never found the template. BAD! + raise IOError(errno.ENOENT, 'No template file found', templatefile) template = fp.read() fp.close() text = template