[Mailman-Users] MM and mhonarc problems...

[Bryce Tate]

I am testing mailman for use at my university, and we want to be able to
support different MIME types in the archives.  I've installed Mhonarc and
I followed the directions of a very helpful list member from an earlier
post to the group.  When I manually run:

mhonarc -mbox $prefix/archives/private/yourmaillist.mbox/yourmaillist.mbox
-outdir /var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist -rcfile
/var/mhonarc/archives/yourmaillist/main.mrc

All of the messages (if I have any) move over just fine, but new messages
are archived automatically...I have this in the /var/log/mailman/error
file:

Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 213, in ArchiveMail
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884):    
self.ExternalArchive(mm_cfg.PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, txt)
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884):   File
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 174, in ExternalArchive
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884):     syslog('error', 'external archiver
non-zero exit status: %d\n' %
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 qrunner(1884): TypeError: unsupported operand type(s)
for >>: 'str' and 'int'
Nov 08 14:19:02 2002 (1884) CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: testlist

I even created an empty test list (as seen above) and it didn't have any
messages in it.  When I sent my first message to the list, the above is
also what the /var/log/mailman/error file reported.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?  I'm hoping that i'm not the only
one on this list who has had this problem before.  Below is my mm_cfg.py
file.  I also have appropriate aliases set in httpd.conf

And other than this Mhonarc issue (and pipermails lack of MIME support)
I've been very pleased with Mailman (and related programs), and my
recommendation will be that we use it.

Thanks for any feedback!

Bryce

#######################################################
#    Here's where we get the distributed defaults.    #

from Defaults import *
import pwd, grp

##############################################################
#    Here's where we override shipped defaults with settings #
#    suitable for the RPM package.                           #
MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2]
MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
LOG_DIR     = '/var/log/mailman'
QUEUE_DIR   = '/var/spool/mailman/qfiles'

##############################################################
# Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . #
# See Defaults.py for explanations of the values.	     #

DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = '<MYHOSTNAME>'
DEFAULT_URL       = '<MYDEFAULTURL>'
MAILMAN_OWNER     = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME

# Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg, but
you
# didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py.

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'
PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mhonarchive'
PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir
/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s'
PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir
/var/mhonarc/archives/%(listname)s'
#PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX,
'/var/mhonarc/archives/', 'private')