[Mailman-Users] Mailman + MhonArc problems

[Marilyn Davis]

Yes the documentation and faq seem to be very lacking in this area.

And it's hard to get each and every detail right.

You have to do a "mailmanctl restart" everytime you change this stuff
for the archiving qrunner to see the changes.

Look in the logs for complaints.

In the end, to get it going, I inserted this bit of code into
/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py:ArchiveMail()


        deb = open("/tmp/debug","w")
        deb.write( xxxx )  
        deb.close()
        os.system("mail marilyn < /tmp/debug")

where xxxx is whatever variable I wanted to look at.  That way I could
see what was happening -- it got delivered to my mailbox.  If it
didn't get to my mailbox, it meant that that part of the code wasn't
reached and I had to back up to see why not.  You do have:

> > ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2

It must be 2.

Now then, I have to coax MHonArc to do something better than the
default and I have sworn to forget perl since I met python.

Good luck to both of us.

Marilyn



On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Doug Roberts wrote:

> > Well, my solution wasn't so well tested.  I'm now running with a
> > simpler solution:
> > 
> > ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2
> > PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'mhonarc -add -outdir /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/%(listname)s
> > PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER
> > ARCHIVE_SCRUBBER = 0
> > ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS = 0
> > PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s/archives/%(listname)s'
> 
> That is effectively what I cut mine down to, also. My problem seems to be that the archiver simply isn't being called when a new message hits the list.
> 
> The FAQ on setting up mailman with Mhonarc is a well intentioned joke:
> 
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.004.htp
> 
> so I may have to do what David suggested and run a shell script every 5 minutes that does the archiving. It's silly, but I don't see another solution that will get me up and running any time soon.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Doug
> 
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