I just upgraded from 1.0b4 to the latest b8 (CVS snapshot). It went mostly fine. Some problems though:

• Python 1.5 doesn't have smtplib.py. Python 1.5.1 does. The documentation claims that 1.5 is good enough.

• When I try to edit HTML through the WWW interface, I get an attribute error about Error.MMBadPassword (or some such).
  Is this a bug, or are my mailing list objects too old?

• in update.log mailman says templates seem like pre-b4. Do I need to upgrade them manually, or does it just meant the templates were in wrong directories?

• I had some archives, but after running 'make update' a few times, they are gone. Instead I have symlinks (list, list.mbox - yes both are symlinks) in the archives directory pointing to public_html/archives/*. But public_html/archives does not exist.

Further, apparently new messages do not get archived now, at least I can't find them anywhere. Should the mailboxes reside in the $prefix/archives directory?

Just out of curiosity, I tried to run the $prefix/cron/archive script manually (writing "python archive 1"). The current crontab does not seem to call it. It complains:

Traceback (innermost last): File "archive", line 55, in ? if level <= list.archive_update_frequency: AttributeError: archive_update_frequency

Does just loading and saving all the mailing lists help, or should I set archive_update_frequency manually?

-- Janne