[ mailman-Bugs-1531675 ] ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX=1 broken

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Bugs item #1531675, was opened at 2006-07-31 11:23
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Category: configuring/installing
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ross Golder (rossigee)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX=1 broken

Initial Comment:
While looking into an archiving problem on
mail.gnome.org, where we use our own external archiver
(ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX was set to 1), Owen Taylor discovered
the following bug causing it to ignore this setting:

>From /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py:

# ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX
#-1 - do not do any archiving
# 0 - do not archive to mbox, use builtin mailman html
archiving only
# 1 - archive to mbox to use an external archiving
mechanism only
# 2 - archive to both mbox and builtin mailman html
archiving -
#     use this to make both external archiving
mechanism work and
#     mailman's builtin html archiving.  the flat mail
file can be
#     useful for searching, external archivers, etc.
ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2

Now, while that's not particularly clear, I can
certainly see why one might assume that we wanted a
setting, of '1', but if you look at the code we see:

        if mm_cfg.ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX in (1, 2):
            self.__archive_to_mbox(msg)
            if mm_cfg.ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX == 1:
                # Archive to mbox only.
                return
        txt = str(msg)
        # should we use the internal or external archiver?
        [...]

So, ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX=1 skips both the internal *and*
external archivers, and archives only to the MBOX files.


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