[Mailman-Users] Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped

[Chris Waltham]

I have a list which is still passing messages correctly (the list is  
moderated) but messages are not appearing in the archives since March  
19, 2008. And, no, I don't think I changed anything on that day. :-)

A simple "check_perms" reports no issues at all, and archives for  
other lists are functioning correctly. I can view the archives of the  
list I'm having problems with -- so I don't think it's an Apache  
problem -- but messages sent to the list since March 19 don't appear  
in the archive. FWIW, here is the size of the archive:

[root at list private]# du -ksh ams-*
18M	ams-announce
4.2M	ams-announce.mbox

Here are the archive settings for the list:

# List traffic archival policies.
archive = 1
# Is archive file source for public or private archival?
archive_private = 0
# How often should a new archive volume be started?
archive_volume_frequency = 1

I just ran a "arch --wipe ams-announce", and that seems to have fixed  
the problem as a test message I sent this morning now appears in the  
archives; as does other mail that was sent after March 19th and before  
today. Just out of interest, what kind of things could stop an archive  
from suddenly stopping? Bad HTML/MIME in a message?

Thanks,


Chris
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Chris Waltham
Systems Engineer
Bowdoin College
Tel: (207) 798-7029
Cel: (207) 607-1939
cwaltham at bowdoin.edu