[Mailman-Users] can't auth to see list archives (debian, fix included)

[Tollef Fog Heen]

*  (Barry A. Warsaw)

(I am the Debian package maintainer for Mailman)

| >>>>> "PS" == Paul Schreiber <pjschrei at undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
| 
|     | If I maunally change the URL to
|     |   http://foo.ca/mailman/private/family/2001-May/thread.html
| 
|     PS> then it works fine. argh! [is this a debian packaging bug?]
| 
| It well may be...

It isn't.  The Debian package is set up to use
http://foo/cgi-bin/mailman as the base URL.  If you change that,
you'll need to change the information in mm_cfg.py as well.

It works ok with the config out-of-the-box.

| That's why you're getting the cgi-bin in your urls. ;)  The default
| PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL in the source distro is just `/mailman/private'.
| I actually think we can get rid of this variable for Mailman 2.1 and
| calculate it on the fly.

Sounds nice.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.