Hi all, I am posting this to this mailing list because many of you might be already using udmsearch and I am hoping on getting some help.

the setup I have is as follows, in udm search config I set it to index www.earlham.edu/archive and that does the public archives just fine.

so for private mailing lists I set it to index

www.earlham.edu/mailman/private and that won't work because it asks for a listname. If I put a list name, (time comsuming for many lists) I am stuck with username and passwd. there is a way in udmsearch to authenticate using AuthBasic but that is not working with mailman.

I though that I could do an apache ScriptAlias so that I can get to the private index list with something like www.earlham.edu/privatearchives/ this would work to index pages in udmsearch. But I don't want those archives public, so I put a htaccess passwd on it. and I can use the udmsearch capabilites to authenticate with htaccess.

so now udm search lists the urls it found as

http://www.earlham.edu/privatearchive/admstaff/October2000/msg00007.html

I click on it, is asks for the htaccess passwd. And that won't work for people.

Is there a way to make www.earlham.edu/mailman/private/ list all the lists? or if I am taking a very bad approach to this. Please let me know.

Thanks a lot for any help

Nick

-- Nicholas Marouf || Earlham College || Assistant System Administrator. http://www.ramallaonline.com