[Mailman-Users] archiving gets "shunted"

[Mark Sapiro]

Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>
>>> The other question is that if I send a message to a list, the member
>>> receive it, but the message is NOT archived.
>>>
>>>    I see that a file appears in qfiles/shunt/
>
>> Have you run Mailman's bin/check_perms?
>
>yes I did. As a result of the first run, as instructed in manual, I did
>
>     cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/
>     chown wwwrun private
>     chmod o-x private
>
>and re-run it again.
>(wwwrun is the suse user under which apache runs)


While the above changes result in the most secure configuration, they
are only necessary (as opposed to o+x) if you have a multi-user system
and you are concerned about local users being able to access private
archives.


>I see now that the default configuration of the list is archive=yes
>archive_private=public.
>
>I see there are directories archive/private/listname, 
>archive/private/listname.mbox and public/listname. The latter is a 
>softlink to private. Is this normal ?


Yes, this is exactly as it should be. archives/private/listname.mbox
contains a single file archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox
which is a unix mbox containing all archived posts to the list and
which can be used as input to bin/arch to rebuild the pipermail
archive which is in archives/private/listname/.

The symlinks in archives/public/ exist only for lists with public
archives and are used by the web server to serve public archive pages
without authentication. These are maintained automatically by Mailman
as the list archives are changed from public to private or vice versa.

The actual archive is always in archives/private.


>All of them are setgid directories owned by wwwrun.mailman except for 
>those of list mailman which are owned by root.mailman, but I guess such 
>list is special, and will have no traffic to be archived.


The owner doesn't matter. Only the group. The 'mailman' list is not
special in this case and can have archives. The ownership difference
is because the mailman list was created with bin/newlist (by root)
whereas the others were created by the web CGI.


>As a result of posting the first message to the list, a file listname.mbox 
>is created in archive/private/listname.mbox (why private ?) and it contain 
>the messages. But the index.html is not updated. A message is shunted, 
>and the attached errors are generated.


The HTML is not updated because the exception occurs after the
listname.mbox file is (created and) written, but before the HTML
archive is updated.

The underlying problem is the same Mailman 2.1.11/Python2.6.5
incompatibility I mentioned in the 'bug adding user, and archiving
gets "shunted"' thread.

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