[Mailman-Users] Public to Private

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:47, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:49, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I have a list that had an archive, which was public.  I need to change
> it
> >> to private.  Is there anything I have to do besides changing the setting
> >> under archives / ?
> >>
> >
> >I think changing that still leaves the actual archives to be "public"
> >(mailmain/archives/public/LISTNAME).
> >As such I think you also need to regenerate the archives using bin/arch
> >--wipe LISTNAME.
>
>
> That is not necessary. The archives are always in archives/private/.
> The only thing in archives/public is a symlink from
> archives/public/listname to archives/private/listname and a second
> symlink from archives/public/listname.mbox to
> archives/private/listname.mbox if PUBLIC_MBOX = Yes in mm_cfg.py.
> These symlinks are created or removed as an archive is changed from
> private to public or vice versa.
>
> If an archive is changed from public to private, the only issue is that
> any saved 'pipermail' URLs will no longer work. If it is changed from
> private to public, saved 'private' URLs will still work, but will
> still require authentication.
>
> Rebuilding the archive with bin/arch --wipe has no effect on any of
> this.
>
>

Thank you for clarifying this. Now I know better that yesterday.


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