[Mailman-Users] rmlist results

[Thufir]

It seems like thunderbird has some difficulty with maildir:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Pluggable_Mail_Stores

so I'm still using mbox.  Are the below errors simply because I wasn't 
running rmlist as sudo?  It should be run as sudo?


thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$ rmlist alpha
Not removing archives.  Reinvoke with -a to remove them.
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/rmlist", line 161, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/sbin/rmlist", line 116, in main
     mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__
     self.Load()
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 650, in Load
     dict, e = self.__load(file)
   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 615, in __load
     fp = open(dbfile)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/var/lib/mailman/lists/alpha/config.pck'
thufir at dur:~$
thufir at dur:~$ sudo rmlist -a alpha
[sudo] password for thufir:
Removing list info
Removing private archives
Removing private archives
Removing public archives
alpha public archives not found as 
/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/alpha.mbox
thufir at dur:~$


thanks,

Thufir