[Mailman-Developers] Archive trouble

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Buchmann <db@bibsys.no> writes:

    DB> I'm having serious problems generating the archive of one of
    DB> my mailing lists.  The mbox for the list has 401 messages, but
    DB> bin/arch stops at message #311.  No error or traceback
    DB> occurs. If I try "bin/arch -s 312 <mylistname>", nothing
    DB> happens. (I only get the "Pickling archive state ..." 
    DB> message.)  The same happens if I start at e.g. message #350.
    DB> Anyone else seen this?

Was this a list created in an earlier version of Mailman?  If so, it's
possible that you've got un-escaped From_ lines in the body of your
messages that's messing things up.  Try "bin/cleanarch -h" for more
information.

    DB> Barry: you should probably update the INSTALL and README files
    DB> asap; they say python 2.1 is required, and 2.1.2 or 2.2 is
    DB> recommended. Should probably be "requires at least python
    DB> 2.1.2, but 2.2 is recommended" ?  (I got a lot of messages in
    DB> qfiles/shunt because of this, just like Michael
    DB> (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2002-April/011654.html)
    DB> did. Upgraded python to 2.2 and ran unshunt, now it works
    DB> fine. :)

I will update these files.

Thanks,
-Barry