Another user had this problem and it was a spam program removing the >From header field. note, there are two FROM header fields, there's From: which is down in the list of headers a bit, but the first one is evidently always "From name date" where date has spaces too. this is i guess the mbox format, or part of it anyway.
so my problem was my mailserver is courier and it uses maildir format for storage. I found that if i simply added a dummy From line to the beginning of every message in my archive and reran "arch <listname>" it would do the right thing and generate all the html. it doesnt use the name here or the date, gets them from the Date: header field and Sender: or From: anyway, i couldnt figure out how to have courier switch to old mbox format for just the users for this list, so what i did was to use the local mail delivery agent already on my mandrake linux box, procmail. where the aliases normally would be this: ranches: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post ranches ranches-admin: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner ranches ranches-request: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd ranches ranches-owner: ranches-admin I had to change it to this: ranches: ranches-dup,ranches-arch ranches-admin: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner ranches ranches-request: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd ranches ranches-owner: ranches-admin # used to duplicate where the email goes ranches-dup: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post ranches ranches-arch: |procmail -d ranches-arch so email to the list goes to ranches (the list name in this case) and it then is duplicated, one copy continues on to the list where i have archiving TURNED OFF (but the options for how to build it (yearly, monthly, etc.) set. the other copy goes to this new user but is delivered via procmail. then i wrote a simple 10 line shell script to check if the mbox file for this new user was newer than the mailman archive file for this list, /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ranches/ranches.mbox/ranches.mbox if memory serves. if it was, it cat'd the whole thing into this archive file and ran "arch ranches" which rebuilt the html pages. it works now, so thanks to those who gave me hints and i hope this solution helps others use courier with mailman as they both work pretty well. Drew -- --- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
