Accessing archives from "deleted" mailing list
I removed a mailing list, but left the archive intact. Is there a way to access the archive via the web interface. Since the mailing list has been deleted it seems that:
http://mail.example.org/private/listname no longer works.
I would assume that I can copy the archive (html files) elsewhere or perhaps set up some sort of apache "alias", but I was hoping that if I "rmlist"d the list and kept the archive I could still easily provide access to the old messages.
Thanks,
Geoff
On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, pc03@mulligan.org wrote:
Correct. If the archives were private and the list is gone, there's no wat to authenticate list ownership/membership for access to the archives.
The simplest thing is to make the archives public by doing
cd /path/to/mailman/archives/public ln -s ../private/listname listname
Then you can access the archive via the public URL, normally something like <http://www.example.com/pipermail/listname>.
To avoid this situation in the future, set Archiving Options -> archive_private to public before deleting the list.
If you don't want the archive to be completely public, you will have do do this via the web server and control access there as well.
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