Chris Barnes wrote:

The archive directory (the entire thing) of our mailman install is toast. The funny thing is, I really don't care about any of the archive files.

But, without the archive directory structure there, Mailman seems to be confused.

Is there a way to get Mailman to simply begin a new archive for every list? Preferably in a directory of my choosing (ie. in /home/mailman/archives/ rather than in /var/lib/mailman/archives/)?

The paths to the private and public archives directories are set by the definitions of PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR and PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR. These are set in Defaults.py with

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, 'archives', 'public') PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, 'archives', 'private')

but can be overridden in mm_cfg.py with say

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = '/home/mailman/archives/public' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = '/home/mailman/archives/private'

These paths will need to exist with appropriate group and mode - Mailman's group for all three and mode 2775 for archives and archives/public and mode 2771 for archives/private.

In addition you need the directories /home/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME/ and /home/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/ with Mailman's group and mode 2775 for each list.

I'm not sure if you need the file /home/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME/index.html or not. I don't think so, and it will be overwritten with the first post anyway.

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