[Mailman-Users] Problems with archiving

[Mark Sapiro]

Josh Greenberg wrote:
>
>At first I think it was a permissions problem but I think I fixed that. 
>Originally, the public directory was owned by root:other and the private 
>was owned by nobody:nobody (the user/group that runs apache). I left the 
>private alone and chown'd the public dir to mailman:mailman.


This is probably at least part of the problem. The private directory
must be group writable and group 'mailman'.


>In the 
>httpd.conf file, I have the following lines:
>
>ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/path/to/mailman/cgi-bin/"
>Alias /pipermail/ "/path/to/mailman/archives/public/"
><Directory "/path/to/mailman/archives/public/">
>        AddDefaultCharset Off
>        Options FollowSymLinks
></Directory>
>
>Does this seem correct?


Yes.


>Am I missing something? Thanks.


Can you go to either archive from the web and see the 'No messages have
been posted to this list yet' page?

Try running bin/check_perms to be sure the ownership/permissions are OK.
The 'mailman' group has to be able to write everywhere in the
archives/private structure.

Are messages being collected in
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox?

Are the permissions = 02775 and group = 'mailman' on the
archives/private/listname.mbox/ directories?

Have you overridden any of the "Archive defaults" in mm_cfg.py?

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