[Mailman-Users] list archives

[Mark Sapiro]

Michael Welch wrote:
> Hi Friends. I have noticed that this list's archives include 3 months
> which have not happened yet.
> 
> How has this occurred, and what will happen when we reach that date
> and new posts crash into the improperly dated archives?


As Dragon notes, this is because the original posts had bad Date: 
headers. In more recent Mailman versions, this is prevented by (from 
Defaults.py)

ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 2
ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW = days(15)


Nothing bad will happen when we reach those dates. In fact, it's 
happened before. IIRC, there were '2008' posts from years back that we 
have already caught up to.


> More importantly, how does one search the mailman archives looking
> for all posts that contain particular text?


See <http://wiki.list.org/x/OIA9>.

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