[Mailman-Users] Archive merge and search

[Hal]

On 11/12/2014 19:12, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>> $ ls
>> total 808
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 hal mailman 825894 Nov  8 15:39 my_list_name.mbox
>
>
> And here's the problem.
>
> sudo chmod g+w
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/my_list_name.mbox/my_list_name.mbox
>
> will fix it. Then you can run bin/unshunt which will put the shunted
> messages in the archive, but as I said before, it's a good idea to first
> examine the contents of qfiles/shunt/ to be sure there aren't other
> messages there that you don't want requeued.

Got it! Thanks.
The messages have entered the archive now and I'll keep a watch when new 
ones arrive to see if they're archived or bounced.
So in summary, this is what I did:


1. permission fixing for the archive
------------------------------------
$ sudo chmod g+w 
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/my_list_name.mbox/my_list_name.mbox

So this adds write permission to the group ("hal" and "mailman"), right? 
Here's a listing before issuing the above chmod command:

$ pwd
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/my_list_name.mbox
$ ls
total 808
-rw-r--r-- 1 hal mailman 825894 Nov  8 15:39 my_list_name.mbox
$


..... then after doing "chmod g+w":

$ pwd
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/my_list_name.mbox
$ ls
total 860
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hal mailman 876548 Dec 12 23:22 my_list_name.mbox
$



2. Viewing the "error" Mailman logfile (to see what's wrong)
------------------------------------------------------------
$ cd /var/log/mailman/
$ more error



3. See what's inside the shunt directory and view their contents
----------------------------------------------------------------
(shunt=messages set aside instead of being archived)
$ cd /var/spool/mailman/shunt/
$ ls
$ /usr/lib/mailman/bin/show_qfiles /var/spool/mailman/shunt/*



4. "Unshunt" messages
---------------------
(put the set aside messages into the archive)
$ /usr/lib/mailman/bin/unshunt




Hal